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Originally Posted by NJblue
Do you really want people to be able to just walk up and buy insurance regardless of a pre-existing condition? If you think insurance is costly now, just wait until this is mandated. What healthy person would pay for an insurance policy if he knew he could get one if he ever developed any serious medical condition? The result would be that only sick people would have insurance. Can you imagine the cost for that?
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A very good point! My best friend of 38 years never had health insurance, he didn't want to spend his money on it and gambled that he wouldn't get sick. He was diagnosed with leukemia 10 years ago, passed away in April, and spent a fortune out of pocket before getting on Medicare. You bet he would have bought insurance after his diagnosis if he could!
He and his now divorced wife also scammed Medicaid out of fifteen thousand dollars for an operation for their son buy claiming that he had left her, yet he never left the family home. He accomplished what many people do to pay for health care without insurance. You wonder why many of us don't trust the government to run health care?