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Getting diagnosed with celiac disease causes girl's health insurance to be cancelled:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-thu-problem-briana-rice-sep17,0,771811.column

via dsmoen

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[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Not so far off from the truth. Actually, in swallowing the expenses of the uninsured who get treated at ER's, etc., premiums go up for everyone. It would be far cheaper to insure EVERYONE but do they do this? NOOOOOOOOOO....

[sethg]

The insurance companies would be thrilled to have a law requiring everyone to buy insurance from them, as long as they can preserve as much of their existing business model as possible. This is basically the situation now in Massachusetts (which is why our mandatory-health-insurance law got signed by a Republican governor), and it's the gist of the reform proposed by (Blue Dog Democratic) Senator Baucus.

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that's why it's imperative that it's a) imperative to have a public option that everyone can afford and b) to avoid mandates. I've followed Massachusetts' little experiment.

California has flirted with a state wide single payer which of course was torpedoed by the particularly nastily ideological brand of Republicans we have here. If we could only torpedo Ahnold and the Rethugs from this state...*sigh*...

[browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com]

and...really imperative to proofread before I post, *rolls eyes at self*