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> People would leave their deadend jobs in droves and start new companies if they didn't have to risk their health and that of their families by doing so. Havi
by anamax 15y ago
> People would leave their deadend jobs in droves and start new companies if they didn't have to risk their health and that of their families by doing so.
Having actually paid the relevant costs out of pocket, I disagree.
Yes, there are some people with chronic conditions who are "teathered" (but not all, as there are states where pre-existing conditions are not grounds for turning someone down and if you keep coverage, aren't even grounds for a waiting period), but they're a small minority. (And, if you have a chronic condition and don't keep coverage....)
I suspect that that the people actually willing to take the plunge are also the sort of people who actually look at what it will cost.
- tptacek 15y agoI'm guessing you're male. The number of females with medical histories (an important distinction from "pre existing condition! My daughter is perfectly healthy, but had a seizure [we think from a drug reaction] when she was four, and...) who are thus uninsurable on the private market is not small. Our current health care system is not a problem for single twenty-something males; that is a win condition in the same sense as a memory allocator that never fragments memory as long as nothing ever calls free().
- anamax 15y ago> The number of females with medical histories (an important distinction from "pre existing condition! My daughter is perfectly healthy, but had a seizure [we think from a drug reaction] when she was four, and...) who are thus uninsurable on the private market is not small. If she's had continuous insurance, she's not uninsurable. As I wrote, in many states, insured people can't be turned down when they want to switch.
- tptacek 15y agoIn Washington State, yes. Not in New York or Illinois or Michigan.