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Old 11-27-2013, 10:11 AM   #245
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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OBVIOUSLY, health insurance should have always covered mental health, maternity care, and breast cancer screenings. That's all part of health and the people will become unhealthy if they don't have these things.

But insurance didn't cover them, because it became a tricky mix of companies trying to remain profitable and state insurance regulators being broadly incompetent while fighting the political will to do nothing so the money would continue to flow.

One hopes that the federal effort would cut this Gordian knot and ensure that health insurance actually, you know, insures health. If car insurance didn't cover back seats just because your car doesn't have one, that would be considered fraud: "Oh you have $5000 of damage, but your check is for $3000 because we don't cover the area between where the driver's seat ends and the rear bumper begins."
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