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It doesn’t change that Mo Brooks was right. The point of the ACA was to force healthier people to support unhealthy people and most preexisting conditions are behavior related. And Brooks is probably already insured. So someone who bought insurance before getting sick, like the representative did, would not be as effected by a medical episode.
What is wrong with forcing healthier people to support unhealthy people? Isn’t that the purpose of insurance, from private plans to Medicare? How else do insurance companies make profits? My wife had breast cancer, I have an incurable (not fatal) disease called Crohn’s disease. Healthy people support us, as we no doubt support people more sick that we are. Or did we not live lives good enough and therefore don’t deserve insurance? Do you have stats that show that preexisting conditions are behavior oriented?