Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

But if you come down with serious cancer tomorrow, you're looking at upwards of a million dollars in medical bills. While that might not be a lot to you, that is a lot to most Americans.

I think one of the big issues people are missing here is that the problem isn't just about not getting health insurance, it's the rules in place that fuck people like us. Health insurance companies can bend rules and basically fuck you out of anything they want. They can cancel you when you get sick and can simply refuse to pay the bills you have. They can determine that their medical diagnosis is better than your doctors and refuse to pay for specific procedures.

At the same time, pharmaceutical companies bend the rules too. They pay for vacations for doctors so they prescribe their more expensive drugs that are not needed. They lobby for rules so that patients can't get their drugs from other countries at a discount.

Then you have doctors who will milk good insurance companies. They'll overbills, run unnecessary tests, and prescribe unnecessary treatments.

In the end you have a circle jerk of those 3 fucking over the patient. Put some rules in place and actually punish the criminals and you reduce health insurance dramatically. Right now our government represents doctors, big pharma and the insurance companies, not the people.