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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
do you think in the universal system you are wanting, these questions will not be asked?
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In the universal single payer system I have, I'm not asked those questions. The state-funded healthcare system doesn't need to ask such things, because everybody qualifies anyway. Private insurance makes up the difference, paying for things like prescriptions. I have full coverage of my prescriptions with a $7 co-pay, optical and dental. I get all of this for peanuts -- $9 per week. When I applied? No questions about pre-existing conditions, no questions about firearms. Age, marital status, smoker or non smoker. Bam! Done.
A universal healthcare system makes a lot of the currently asked questions irrelevant. If your insurance company doesn't have to pay for the treatment of your gunshot wound, they don't give two shits about how many guns you own. Assuming you lot were to institute a system similar to ours, my thinking is that you'd get hassled less about your guns.
Just sayin'.