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yallerdawg

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6. Back to the good old days!

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 12:55 PM

Sep 2017

Back in '90, my wife "got pregnant," and the 'responsible' insurance I carried would treat it as a one-time 'illness' with a cap of $200/illness. I stopped sending them premiums.

Some years later, had an HMO. My wife had some "bleeding." They discovered a mass in her uterus the size of a baseball! They said this didn't meet their criteria of coverage which required the mass to be the size of a softball! I SHIT YOU NOT!

And this HMO? A self-funded HMO run by the hospital system which employed my wife as a nurse! I SHIT YOU NOT!

This is what they want us to go back to.

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Did YOU look on the top of DU Home Page GOP Hellcare Chart? LOOK at it!! [View all] BigmanPigman Sep 2017 OP

Feh, half of America doesnt think it is important to even vote let alone Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

Posting the image in question near top of the thread since OP didn't. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2017 #12

Thanks, I don't know how to do that...my android tablet BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #14

Not Paying ck4829 Sep 2017 #2

What if you're pregnant and *gasp* DePrEsSeD Corvo Bianco Sep 2017 #3

How Much Will a Severe Trump Depression Set Ya Back? Stallion Sep 2017 #4

Back to the good old days! yallerdawg Sep 2017 #6

Thank you for surviving. Corvo Bianco Sep 2017 #15

Unless they are aliens LiberalBrooke Sep 2017 #5

The stupid fuckers declare it to be solely an issue of women's heathcare Orrex Sep 2017 #7

That's the "Woman's Tax" ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #8

Where does it say that if you have EVER been pregnant....... WillowTree Sep 2017 #9

It says, "If you have (or ever had) any of these conditions". BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #10

No......where does it say anything like that in the bill? WillowTree Sep 2017 #11

Insurance companies not mandated to cover pregnancy: yallerdawg Sep 2017 #16

I didn't say that they were. Well....... WillowTree Sep 2017 #17

Just reading what Table 1 says. yallerdawg Sep 2017 #18

Pregnancy was only considered a "pre-existing" condition....... WillowTree Sep 2017 #19

K & R SunSeeker Sep 2017 #13