RDD_1210
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's still there. I'd have to go look it up again but it was there last time I checked.
Actually, it's not there. And there's a reason for that. Once you start down that road, you're re-creating the same problem they were trying to avoid - the dreaded 'pre-existing' conditions dilemma. Telling someone they can't get health insurance for another year isn't much different than telling them they can't get it at all - especially in the emergency scenarios you're proposing.
But pretending we can legislate away the pre-existing conditions problem is a fantasy. Insurance simply can't work that like that. You wouldn't expect someone to sell you car insurance to retro-actively fix your car after it's been totalled - and we can't expect health insurance to work any differently. What we're trying to do is to create socialized health care and pretend it's something different. But in that senseless denial, we're only enriching the insurance companies willing to play along with our delusion.
Actually, it is there. Did you actually bother to look? Because I did and it's there.