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>"I need medicine for a condition I was born with, fuck me right?" More like fuck everybody. Insurance companies claim pre-existing as a matter of course and

>"I need medicine for a condition I was born with, fuck me right?" More like fuck everybody. Insurance companies claim pre-existing as a matter of course and will demand a letter of necessity just to waste time. Insurance is a well-oiled machine optimized to take your money while using every trick in the book to avoid providing anything in return, particularly when it matters most. I say this as a current customer and prior employee of the industry.

mathgladiator 13y ago
> More like fuck everybody. This is very true, but it's one of the reason that kids are such a dice roll. Since we, as a society, are obsessed with "what about the children", then we should by default ensure everyone has insurance from cradle to grave independent of employment.
- mhurron 13y ago
  No, we as a society only care about children. You're the most precious and wonderful thing until you turn 18, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
  - mjn 13y ago
    Both children and the elderly, curiously enough. For a country with a generally weak social safety net, the U.S. actually has a quite generous old-age safety net, via Social Security and Medicare: a quasi-universal pension and close to single-payer health coverage. So if you live long enough you're set! I've found that a bit curious, since I don't see any obvious reason that a 70-year-old with cancer should have a stronger guaranteed right to free health treatment than a 30-year-old or a 50-year-old with cancer.
    - wes-exp 13y ago
      I've found that a bit curious Older people vote and are a simply a constituency that politicians don't mess with. The same logic of "think of the children" can be "think of our seniors" with the added weight that they vote and and are a powerful political lobby.
    - philwelch 13y ago
      It's not hard to imagine why there's more sympathy for taking care of children and the aged rather than working age adults.

mathgladiator 13y ago

> More like fuck everybody. This is very true, but it's one of the reason that kids are such a dice roll. Since we, as a society, are obsessed with "what about the children", then we should by default ensure everyone has insurance from cradle to grave independent of employment.

mhurron 13y ago
No, we as a society only care about children. You're the most precious and wonderful thing until you turn 18, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
- mjn 13y ago
  Both children and the elderly, curiously enough. For a country with a generally weak social safety net, the U.S. actually has a quite generous old-age safety net, via Social Security and Medicare: a quasi-universal pension and close to single-payer health coverage. So if you live long enough you're set! I've found that a bit curious, since I don't see any obvious reason that a 70-year-old with cancer should have a stronger guaranteed right to free health treatment than a 30-year-old or a 50-year-old with cancer.
  - wes-exp 13y ago
    I've found that a bit curious Older people vote and are a simply a constituency that politicians don't mess with. The same logic of "think of the children" can be "think of our seniors" with the added weight that they vote and and are a powerful political lobby.
  - philwelch 13y ago
    It's not hard to imagine why there's more sympathy for taking care of children and the aged rather than working age adults.