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

To: TimF who wrote (40645)

1/10/2016 12:32:46 AM

From: i-node

Respond to of 42652

OTOH anyone approaching such a limit probably has serious preexisting conditions, that in the past an insurance company could deny coverage for, so maybe they couldn't change companies.)

Yeah, I think the real problem was with certain chronic illness, transplants and multiple surgeries. 40% of plans had no lifetime cap at all. But I seem to recall that most of the plans that did have them had raised them to 5 Million.

I never believed it was a huge problem or one that would have been difficult to remedy. If you went to the insurance industry and said, "What would it take to do away with lifetime caps?" the answer surely would have been "not much."