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Destitute vs. McCain, Pt.3 – Struggling consumer base needs most help.

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The next response comes from a health insurance agent, signed in as 'Brian’. He notes that the problem he witnesses every day is also his own problem. He’s a diabetic and can’t even get coverage fir himself. If health insurance companies will cover pre-existing conditions at all, he says, they jack the prices so high that people can’t afford them. He notes that: "most of the common diseases can be managed by medicine.” He acknowledges how broken our current system is, but puts little faith in either candidate’s proposals. The real problem is that health insurance system is a political hot potato, as it has been since Truman. There just is no easy answer, he says.

Signed on as ‘zhivago’, this person suggests that an elementary premise is that the health insurance industry is in the business just to make money. Of course. But he parallels McCain as only thinking in that vein, as well. That is, helping the health insurance industry to make more money. He suggests that this is the reason for Mr. McCain’s policy of guaranteeing access to the ‘uninsurable’ with very high premium rates. How else can all these benevolent CEOs afford all those trips to the spas?

Now comes a concern for ‘the rest of us’ from a signee called ’Emerson’. ’Emerson’ would like to see more attention paid to other statii as well. People with “depression, diabetes, arthritis, etc”. What are premium costs like for those people? Guaranteed adequate and affordable access should be provided to more than just the completely uninsured. When adding up those who can’t afford to be underwritten, the numbers of Americans with real health insurance problems would be much higher that ‘1 in 6’. Those Americans need to be counted too, ’Emerson’ states.

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