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I'm guessing you're male. The number of females with medical histories (an important distinction from "pre existing condition! My daughter is perfectly healthy, but had a seizure [we think from a drug reaction] when she was four, and...) who are thus uninsurable on the private market is not small.

Our current health care system is not a problem for single twenty-something males; that is a win condition in the same sense as a memory allocator that never fragments memory as long as nothing ever calls free().




> The number of females with medical histories (an important distinction from "pre existing condition! My daughter is perfectly healthy, but had a seizure [we think from a drug reaction] when she was four, and...) who are thus uninsurable on the private market is not small.

If she's had continuous insurance, she's not uninsurable.

As I wrote, in many states, insured people can't be turned down when they want to switch.


In Washington State, yes. Not in New York or Illinois or Michigan.




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