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What people sometimes forget it insurance companies are businesses also. I think of it as they are investing in people. A person with pre-existing conditions could possibly (and most of the time) be a bad investment so that is why people with that situation have a hard time getting insurance. With this new plan, many insurance companies will go bankrupt and out of business as they can't choose their investments anymore. I agree that some reform is in order, as I know some people who can't get insurance in their own name because of pre-existing conditions, but not in the way that the bill was passed. Forcing people to buy health insurance, who don't want/need it, is not right.

Insuring someone with pre-existing conditions is like adding full coverage auto insurance to a car that was just totaled or adding homeowners insurance to a house that burned to the ground after the fire. Just doesn't make sense. Call me a heartless bastard or whatever. It's my opinion. I think there should be a way they can get insurance, obviously, but I can also see why the insurance companies don't want to insure them, and it's their choice. Not anymore though. Another step towards socialism and another step away from the principals our founding fathers fought to defend.