No matter what you do, as long as we have a for-profit health care system:
Soon after a pediatrician noted in his medical records that 5-year-old Logan Swaim was short for his age, his mother, Theresa, tried to buy health insurance.
Her husband, William, had started his own landscaping business after being laid off, and the insurance he got from his former employer was about to expire. Two insurers accepted the Swaims and three of their children for new coverage, but they rejected Logan, fearing his height — 40½ inches — might indicate a glandular problem that could be expensive to treat.
For two years, the Swaims paid all of Logan’s medical bills themselves, about $4,300. Eventually they got test results showing there was nothing wrong with him. Even so, the insurers wouldn’t cover him, Theresa Swaim says, because the time to appeal the denial of coverage had expired.
“ha ha ha! You didn’t touch all the bases! Well, you didn’t touch the secret base, so you lose, we win!”
Playing Calvinball with kids lives. It really is surprising to me that more americans don’t go on violent rampages against these jerks.
All of which is a need for meaningful health care reform. But nobody should ever use this as a justification for ruining health care by giving into those who want to Stalinize health care by making it a single government monopoly.