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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2397)	10/27/2007 1:42:51 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Denying insurance for people with pre-existing conditions? Just like a home owner's insurance company would deny me coverage if I tried to "insure" my already burnt down house.

To: Road Walker who wrote (2397)	10/27/2007 7:36:36 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Difficult to accomplish when you have 50 states all with different regulations. For some reason you've taken that as a given. Oddly, you're confident that we can manage the enormous change to a universal, government-provided system but can't manage to find some simple, cross-state unity? Since the latter is a small part of the former, it's obviously more easily doable. Even if different states have different regulations, they operate off of a similar enough data base that they could use consistent codes and forms. That's the major part of the burden for medical offices. And computerization would make a huge difference with remaining regulatory variations. Paying adjuster commissions based on declined claims? Denying insurance for people with pre-existing conditions? Different companies of any sort approach profit-making differently. If some insurance companies practice as you describe, you take your business elsewhere. That's the American way.