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Originally Posted by Rekna
Let's assume we did make it mandatory... how are the homeless going to afford it? What about unemployed or extremely poor people? Who is going to pay when the insurance companies deny coverage because it is a "previous condition"?
The health insurance industry is a bunch of crooks that are fleecing America. The last thing we need to do is give them a government sanction.
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Low-income and the poor already qualify for Medicaid/Medicare. None of the proposals from the Democratic nominees are intended to be permanent fixes, but they all intend to implement stronger regulations to reign in the insurance industry as part of their health care packages.
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Originally Posted by pan6467
Once you give government that control and they make insurance mandatory, you then give them control over YOUR life.
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The mixed payor health insurance market is failing. The idea of mandatory insurance is a half-measure and imperfect in it's own right, but it's all that's likely to be implementable in the current political climate. The purpose is not to control your life it's to free you of an unnecessary financial burden that's artificially inflated by the profit-motive. Really, it's nice to speak about theoretical solutions abd high ideals, but our nation pays 60-300% more for health care than the universal health care schemes in Europe, Canada, and Japan and 15% of our population isn't even covered.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
You got the VA if you want that brand of mediocrity.
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I don't usually post in this forum so I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic but the VA is a shining example of the efficacy of a government-run, self-contained health care system.