On 2/22/11 07:43 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:

On 2/21/11 18:42 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:

On 2/21/11 15:11 , Joe from Kokomo wrote:

I hope you [Lare] have and/or can afford medical insurance
with YOUR pre-existing medical condition(s). The Big
Business insurance companies can, have and will again deny
coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.

On 2/21/2011 6:25 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Just as the Big Government insurance plan is doing today.

Seeing as the new plan has not yet been implemented, this
would presume that you are referring to what we have 'today' --
Medicare -- which does NOT deny coverage because of
pre-existing conditions.

On 2/22/2011 2:27 AM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Government medical plans, of any stripe turn down more
pre-existing conditions than all the insurance carriers
combined.

Can you give any examples of this

On 2/22/2011 8:45 AM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

You don't spend any time talking to veterans, do you.

No, I've had neither the occasion nor the opportunity. Furthermore, I
have no idea what "medical plan" the vets are under. Possibly you are
referring to the Agent Orange issue or the spent uranium bullets? If so,
the root problem may be that the science just hasn't caught up yet --
although I seem to recall that they are finally realizing some of the
Agent Orange issues. My son did his Residency at a VA hospital, so
I will have to ask him about this.

Again however, I believe this thread was essentially focused on Medicare
-- which is MUCH larger than the vet issue -- and with Medicare,
pre-existing conditions do NOT appear to be a problem.

On 2/22/2011 2:27 AM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Government medical plans, of any stripe turn down more
pre-existing conditions than all the insurance carriers
combined.

Turn down more than ALL insurance carriers combined??? Can you justify
this claim? Any actual numbers?