GOP Wants to Repeal Obamacare NOW, and Replace Later....Much Later

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wolfsblood; do you know anyone that has a pre-existing medical condition?  If you did I'm pretty sure that your opinion would be totally different.

I have something that I'm pretty sure counts as a pre-existing medical condition although I've never had to deal with medical insurance so I don't know for certain; although not exactly a serious one (I have asthma; not something that's life threatening or anything) but if I didn't have access to my inhalers it'd be a huge harm to my quality of life: before I got diagnosed I had attacks that affected me for up to a week at a time, while with my inhalers I've never had one anywhere near that bad.  By allowing private companies to deny coverage or charging exorbitant additional fees for treatment you are basically condemning people to misery and maybe worse for reasons that are often no fault of their own.

Also its not "life" that the rich and poor should have different treatment - while yes we have private healthcare and there are inequalities between the quality of care between wealthy and poor areas in the NHS the former is a small, small fraction of overall care and even most people that could afford it stick to the NHS (unless you could cut the queue for something very urgent, although lots of private procedures are reliant on NHS facilities so that isn't even always possible) and although the latter is a big problem that needs to be improved, its still a hell of a lot better than lots of people have in America in terms of availability and quality; and second to none in terms of cost.  Its not just an NHS thing; every other developed western country has a healthcare system that is better on almost every metric than the American system, yet apparently your reaction is to move even further away from the models that are clearly working much, much better.