I'd just like to know, if someone you didn't know came to you and asked you to agree to pay their future medical bills out of your own pocket, no matter how much it might cost, and no matter how long you might have to pay for them, solely in exchange for a fee, would you agree to do it? If so, would you agree to do it without knowing if they already had a serious illness such as cancer? Would you agree to no limits on the amount you had to pay for their treatment, even if it could potentially bankrupt you? If the answer is yes to all of that, how much would you charge that individual to obligate yourself to them to that degree?
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I would,( if I wanted to be an insurance company. )
I would do it for free, on the basis that as soon as they agreed, I would stab them in the head or chest or maybe slash their femoral artery.
would the insurer be allowed to harvest the organs of the dead person?
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What about the huge increase in healthy customers? Have you conveniently forgotten about them?
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I already do. Part of my tax and national insurance payments go to the NHS so no one has to pay on a case by case basis for healthcare.
Of course not. I factored everything in, just the way the health insurance companies are doing, and will continue to do. They don't hire underwriters for no reason.
Apparently you don't understand the difference between ObamaCare and the system in the UK.
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How many insurance companies have only one policy holder?
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You also have no idea whatsoever what you're paying for health insurance. As you state, you're paying— you just don't know how much.
This is not an opinion; it is fact. Whether it's good or "fair" ( whatever that word means ) is another matter entirely.
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well your system is a shitty compromise between proper universal healthcare like in the uk and private healthcare like you had before, but either way, I pay for other people to be treated no matter what their illness. and sometimes I get treated too.
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damn right. they should have had the balls to go for universal healthcare and join the rest of the developed world.
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funny, cause when the uk adopted universal healthcare, child and maternal mortality plummeted and the average age at death went up. and the USA could do with better child mortality figures.
I was referring to ObamaCare.
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So we can lump you into the pile of idiots that actually use the term "ObamaCare."
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you are clearly an idiot.
You call it a shitty compromise, then say I'm an idiot for saying it made bad matters worse. Some kind of genius you are.
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have a look at the post I'm referring to.
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Fixed it
What's wrong with calling it ObamaCare? Do you have a better suggestion?
