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yallerdawg

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11. I remember every employer-provided health insurance I ever got...
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 08:52 PM
Dec 2015

started with one year pre-existing condition rider.

No problem when you're young, but as you get a little older, you pick up some baggage.

No problem when you have the same job and insurance for decades. But that was the old America.

Then you get to rejection of your insurance application. You are not a good risk - which makes your employer start to eyeball you!

Or you lie - and your claim is then rejected, and it's never just one claim! It cascades into insolvency while they still deduct your useless premium out of your paycheck!

The Affordable Care Act is a good start. The best we could get. And it is reviled!

So when I hear, "Vote for me and together we will get universal health care coverage" I wonder just what America these people live in?

Didn't Vermont reject universal health care? That can't be the place then...

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