Health Insurers: We’ll Deny Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions If Health Mandate Is Repealed

[Ron Obvious]

3. What else could they do?

Of course they do. Otherwise, without them being able to deny coverage for pre-existing condition, their customers would only get insurance when they get sick and drop it when they're well again. That'd be a completely unsustainable model of insurance. Every country that has an insurance model for medical care has a mandate. Of course, like e.g. Switzerland and the Netherlands, their rates are much more reasonable than ours. $150 a month gets you full coverage including vision and dental. My wife and I pay $600 a month for shitty coverage that pays for virtually nothing.

I'm afraid I suspected the worst when I heard Obama say during the campaign that his healthcare plan, unlike Hillary Clinton's, wouldn't have any mandates. That's the mark of a liar who'll say anything to get elected. He must have known better.