When Did My Health and Illness Become Your Business? Why is health care coverage political? Call me simple-minded, but as long as I’ve been alive, being ‘American’ has always meant something including: having functioning fire departments, working street lights, city library, reliable postal service along with hospitals and doctors that are available to serve their community. They way I see it is that The Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) was a ‘refresh’ to the Great American Dream. Why? Because I no longer needed to worry about my health care. But no. So now (again) we have the Court taking up the issue of whether the ACA is constitutional. And if they decide it is not? Well, plan to spend your time not building your business but rather worrying because, Insurers would also no longer have to cover young adults up to age 26 under their parents’ plans; annual and lifetime limits on coverage would again be permitted; and there would be no cap on out-of-pocket medical costs. Also gone would be the popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Selected Excerpt: “Without those protections, insurers could return to denying coverage to such people or to charging them more. They could also return to charging people more based on their age, gender or profession.”
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