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

To: Road Walker who wrote (24033)	7/3/2012 1:25:35 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

If everyone is covered by insurance and if the moon was made of green cheese, maybe we could feed it to the hungry. Neither is likely to happen in the near to mid-term future. Even the prominent supporters of the PPACA don't claim it will cover everyone, there will still be millions maybe tens of millions not covered under their most optimistic assumptions, and those assumptions ignore the factors in the law that would push some people toward being not covered.

To: Road Walker who wrote (24033)	7/3/2012 1:50:28 PM
From: Lane3	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

If everyone is covered by insurance, then pre-existing conditions will, by definition, no longer be pre-existing. Indeed. But everyone is not covered by insurance, so, in that cohort, people have pre-existing conditions which they will take with them when they join the cohort that is covered by insurance. Unlike now, when they can't join that insured cohort, at least not without paying more than those without pre-existing conditions. Too many right wing nuts that want to argue about semantics and crap. Also people who talk through their hats.