As a foreigner who cannot vote, I cannot believe the USA is so incredibly backward about healthcare. When you look at international data, the USA ranks lowest of the rich countries for longevity and quality of healthcare, and highest for price of healthcare per person. Child mortality in the US is below other developed nations'. All the main indicators show that the USA is shamefully letting people die because they cannot pay for the normal services that other people in other rich nations receive for normal, instead of exorbitant, prices. The USA prefers that a sliver of people enrich themselves on the health of the rest - and many lives hang in the balance. In the history books, this will be seen as incomprehensible - capitalism at its worse.

Shame on all the inhuman people on this thread who want this to continue.

OP, I wish your daughter the best quality of life. Can't vote, sorry.

I'll b voting for your child and everyone else's child too OP!

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Anonymous wrote:OP should go and move to Canada.
Private health insurance is not designed for her daughter's type of health care needs
Immigrating is not that hat. Staying in the US is irresponsible

Private insurance is not designed for people who get sick?

Sick is ok. A chronic condition costing more than 6 figures is not.
Sorry, but that is how insurance and risk sharing with hospitals work

LOL bless your heart, one surgery for my daughter cost 115,000 dollars. Her five day recovery in the hospital was approximately $70,000. And one surgery for almost anything could cost that much. One visit to a specialist at a children’s hospital cost the insurance company $1,500.

Please stop embarrassing yourself.

Have you ever checked to make sure you cast a shadow?

OK, I don't care who you are, THAT was funny!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP should go and move to Canada.
Private health insurance is not designed for her daughter's type of health care needs
Immigrating is not that hat. Staying in the US is irresponsible

Private insurance is not designed for people who get sick?

Sick is ok. A chronic condition costing more than 6 figures is not.
Sorry, but that is how insurance and risk sharing with hospitals work

Anonymous wrote:OP should go and move to Canada.
Private health insurance is not designed for her daughter's type of health care needs
Immigrating is not that hat. Staying in the US is irresponsible

Private insurance is not designed for people who get sick?

OP should go and move to Canada.
Private health insurance is not designed for her daughter's type of health care needs
Immigrating is not that hat. Staying in the US is irresponsible

If the Democrats don't win the House, say goodbye to the US we grew up in and hello to unfettered oligarchy.

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Anonymous wrote:Please vote for Democrats.

My daughter has a rare disease, and I have posted before. Our insurance has paid over $150,000 in surgeries for her, to try to give her a normal life again.

If the Republicans stay in power, insurance companies may regain the ability to reject customers who have “pre-existing” conditions, and she would be one of those people.

She is 7. She needs medical care. We are not wealthy and paying for her treatment out of pocket would financially ruin us, if we even managed it.

Please don’t vote for the people who are going to ruin my daughter ‘s ability to live a normal life. Vote Democratic.

Um, they can’t bounce you on your insurance and if you change jobs go on cobra

You created your daughter. It is your responsibility to give her a normal life, not mine. You repeat that your daughter will contribute to the common good by paying taxes. Unless she already had a well paying job, tell me how you can guarantee that she will be able to make that contribution.

Have you ever checked to make sure you cast a shadow?

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Anonymous wrote:Not just for healthcare, but I don't understand the mentality that anyone is entitled to the money of others for solving personal problems and that this entitlement should be enforced through force of federal law.

We need insurance to pay the end of life care for grandpappy. It is running almost over $1 million per year of treatments, hospital stays and medicine. Even the clinical trials! Thank goodness for AFA. Vote Democrat!

Grandpappy gets Medicare but good attempt at sarcasm? /fail

The only way is free market healthcare. Healthcare is a want not a constitutional right. Want sh@tty healthcare? Go to your local free clinic? Want better healthcare? Get a job with health insurance. Oh, and stop whining.

Anonymous wrote:Not just for healthcare, but I don't understand the mentality that anyone is entitled to the money of others for solving personal problems and that this entitlement should be enforced through force of federal law.

That is literally how all insurance programs work. Everyone pays who pays premiums is subidizing tho who need insurance money.

Anonymous wrote:Please vote for Democrats.

My daughter has a rare disease, and I have posted before. Our insurance has paid over $150,000 in surgeries for her, to try to give her a normal life again.

If the Republicans stay in power, insurance companies may regain the ability to reject customers who have “pre-existing” conditions, and she would be one of those people.

She is 7. She needs medical care. We are not wealthy and paying for her treatment out of pocket would financially ruin us, if we even managed it.

Please don’t vote for the people who are going to ruin my daughter ‘s ability to live a normal life. Vote Democratic.

According to Republicans your daughter deserves to die because health care isn't a human right.

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Anonymous wrote:Not just for healthcare, but I don't understand the mentality that anyone is entitled to the money of others for solving personal problems and that this entitlement should be enforced through force of federal law.

We need insurance to pay the end of life care for grandpappy. It is running almost over $1 million per year of treatments, hospital stays and medicine. Even the clinical trials! Thank goodness for AFA. Vote Democrat!

Grandpappy gets Medicare but good attempt at sarcasm? /fail

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Anonymous wrote:There needs to be more options for health insurance

Obamacare actually increased insurance costs for many people because it covers stuff that many people need

Health Insurance should be more like Auto Insurance you select the level of coverage you actually need

As far as preexisting conditions are concerned all the bills never kicked people off as long as they didn't have a lapse in coverage of more than I think 6 months which makes sense and solves the free rider problem

This is such an awful comparison. What happens when you get cancer, but you bought cheap "coverage" that doesn't include cancer? Either you die in misery (I don't want to live in a country like that....especially when we are the richest country in the world) or you leave the hospital/doctors to eat the cost of your care and they pass along those costs to me (the scenario being proposed by the GOP)?

How about we just make it a statutory requirement that all plans cover cancer? That makes it cheaper for everyone in the long run.

This is rather silly. Typically healthcare coverage levels has to do with provider network access, procedures/drugs, initial deductibles, co-pays, and maximum lifetime benefits. Are there any health insurance that excludes cancer?

Not right now, because of OBAMACARE.

Before that, cancer patients were routinely denied coverage because the insurer claimed their cancer was a pre-existing condition.

Read/watch "The Rainmaker" -- all about how insurers used to simply deny every claim until the plaintiff died.

Now you can have Obamacare and they will make you wait months toyears for treatment or operations. Plus insurer after insurer is pulling out citing the costs overwhelm the premiums.

BS.

The Trump administration has done everything in their power to make Obamacare unreasonable for insurance companies. Instead of trying to make it work they are trying to make it fail.

And Obamacare has nothing to do with wait times.

Obama sunset his teaser rates for his last year in office, enjoy!

Teaser rates for what? My insurance rates have stayed virtually the same for 10 years.

I'll be voting for Democrats who will do everything they can to fix the healthcare issues in this country.