Your rude commenters who liken preexisting health conditions to floodplain housing or lazy drivers probably support this misogynist and fish hater to boot!

Didn’t Ayn Rand commit suicide? There might be a lesson there Brad.

I appreciate your views @Arctic. That said, it’s all for naught unless we’re around and healthy enough to experience it, no?

Ms. Coyne,

I am very sorry but Brad is correct according to my view. When the condition is pre-existing (so-called) then what we call coverage is no more insurance than is coverage purchased for a house that is already burning. There is no actuarial arithmetic to apply to an event that has already occurred. If it is pre-existing it is not insurance but it might be a device to avoid the cost personally.

But I try to be philosophical about ObamaCare. I know a fellow who has managed a tiny business for about 30 years; 15 to 20 employees, through a succession of ownerships and other changes at the business. For all that time he has almost always worked 7 days a week even though he has never owned the business. Health insurance was a problem for the business and expensive for him personally (although he is paid well through commissions on big-ticket items). Now, so far as he can see ObamaCare has solved that problem. This fellow can see that we are living on borrowed time and money borrowed from China, and that entitlement promises to disabled vets, Social Security enrollees and others cannot be met unless dollars become worth even less (and lose more buying power). But his attitude is that the government gives government employees, welfare recipients, and many others (I will say inner city people but he uses another term) subsidized health care so he and his family, and those employees deserve their share as private sector workers who pay taxes. He says when the inner city people appear at their doorstep after it all breaks down, he and his employees have lots of ammunition. If needs be, and after all the deer are shot, they can come up with recipes for cooking those inner city people I suppose. Thanks to petroleum money, we in Alaska have been insulated from many Lower 48 realities.

Should bad drivers, lazy careless homeowners pay the same rate as good safe drivers and thoughtful, proactive homeowners? HELL NO! Why should health insurance be any different? Smokers, drinkers, people who do not exercise, over eat, eat bad diets, and drink soda pay the same premiums as healthy people which is the same as drunks paying the same rates as safe drivers.

Sorry about your health issues, insurance is not the right solution for your health problems. Just as the folks that live in flood planes and have their homes flood every couple years we have a special federal program for them.

That is probably a far better solution the screwing up health insurance for the other 80 percent of people.

Ummm since your GOV refused to expand Medicare, you need to elected a NEW Gov!

Run for Senate then!?