On Prexisting Conditions

[SoCalDem]

9. Once you start separating out certain groups of people, you weaken the system

and strengthen the "other-ness" of people "not like you and me", and in doing so, you open them up for cuts here and there, and over time, elimination from services.

This is the problem we currently have..in spades.

As long as "some people" are deemed to be lesser-thans, it's easier to discount their worth.

Already, smokers have been carved "out of the norm"..and the next carve-out will be weight (count on it). They are not "pre-existing conditions", but will be treated as such. And once the weight issue is attached, what comes next? athletes?

I can tell you, as the Mom of an athlete, we used a LOT of healthcare for our intrepid young guy who participated in soccer, football, basketball, golf, tennis.

For a good group plan to operate, it needs to the BLIND to the proclivities of the participants.

Insurance is ALL about actuarial tables..A National healthcare policy would assume that EVERYONE has some "bad habits/issues" and the system is about delivering healthCARE to people...not INSURANCE.

We are doing it bass-ack-wards in the US.