If You're Already Sick, Obamacare Clobbers You

[Travis Retriever]

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/120613-682150-if-youre-already-sick-obamacare-clobbers-you.htm
"He even lied that his mother, Anne Dunham, a cancer victim, suffered because her insurer used the pre-existing condition excuse to drop her. The truth, revealed in a 2011 biography, is she had employer-provided insurance which paid her hospital bills until the end of her life."

Just from the title alone, (as someone with pre-existing conditions) I am scared for my future.

[Skm1091]

Before socialized medicine there were charity clinics everywhere? A years worth of health insurance costed only eight days of years wage. Now we have this inefficient POS.

[Travis Retriever]

Before socialized medicine there were charity clinics everywhere? A years worth of health insurance costed only eight days of years wage. Now we have this inefficient POS.

Actually, IIRC, it was one day's wages covered an entire year's work of healthcare.   But yeah, the point being, we only have a health care crisis now because govco 'solved' the previous one:  http://www.freenation.org/a/f12l3.html

[evensgrey]

Actually, IIRC, it was one day's wages covered an entire year's work of healthcare.   But yeah, the point being, we only have a health care crisis now because govco 'solved' the previous one:  http://www.freenation.org/a/f12l3.html

Not just heath care, either.  A days wages would cover enrollment for death, disability, and unemployment coverage, as well as granting access to social activities and an extensive social network, and there were probably other services in most Fraternal Societies as well.  These days, there's nothing like it anywhere.

[Skm1091]

Not just heath care, either.  A days wages would cover enrollment for death, disability, and unemployment coverage, as well as granting access to social activities and an extensive social network, and there were probably other services in most Fraternal Societies as well.  These days, there's nothing like it anywhere.

Houses in those days were also a lot cheaper.