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If I went over the Bret Baier interview with the Ayatollah with a fine-toothed comb, I could probably get a few dozen posts just from the resulting fisking.

But I have neither the time, nor the patience, nor even the attention span for that&#160 (Hey, maybe that’s the ADHD kicking in.&#160 Is that a pre-existing condition?)&#160 So I’m going to take one part of it, and rip it to shreds.&#160 (The transcript of it is here, BTW.)

I’ve got the exact same e-mails, that I could show you, that talk about why haven’t we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good a deal as members of Congress are getting, and don’t have my insurance rates jacked up 40 percent? Why is it that I, a mother with a child with a preexisting condition, still can’t get insurance?

Y’know, I’m getting pretty damned tired of this “oh, I’ve got a pre-existing condition I can’t get insurance” whine I keep hearing.

It’s bullshit.&#160 And I’m living proof of it.

As you know, Denizens – that is, if you’re not a member of the Uninitiated&#153 – I contracted type-II diabetes in 1995.&#160 It’s my death sentence – at some point, I will die from some medical complication that can be traced back to this disease.&#160 It’s about as pre-existing a condition as you can possible get – at least, since 1995.

Since I became a diabetic, I have changed jobs five times.&#160 Four of those changes involved companies which offered health insurance to its employees.&#160 (The fifth one was the preceding one from what I have now, and that was as the next step up from being a pure contractor – no bennies whatsoever.)

I have never&#160 had any problem getting health coverage.&#160 Ever.

Nor do I think I’m the exception – otherwise, why have I never even been called for a pre-coverage physical?

Now maybe there are some&#160 medical maladies which insurance companies won’t cover pre-existing – but then, insurance companies are businesses, too.&#160 They have to make money, just like the companies for which you & I slave our asses off.

So you’ll excuse me if I think the meme about “pre-existing conditions” is nothing but a bunch of hooey.&#160 At least partially, anyway.


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2 responses to ““Pre-existing conditions”?”

  1. David Hartung says:

    There ya go with the facts again! Hasn’t anyone told you that using the truth and facts in a political argument is downright un-American? 8)

  2. Alan K. Henderson says:

    I’m worried about ObamaCare’s post-existing conditions.

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