you might have a baby someday! babies are expensive profit maximization in health care comes from paying as little as possible and the more guardrails you take away from the insurance companies the more creative they will get with ways to screw you over

At the job I was working in my mid-20s, I was so thrilled when I qualified for the high-premium low-coverage insurance, because if I got pregnant that would be even more expensive than the insurance! It turned out to have a clause that if anyone in my household got pregnant, the policy was canceled.

In the perfect republican healthcare system everything will be a preexisting condition but everyone will be required to pay for insurance

The profit motivation is 100% antithetical to life saving motivations. There should be no private health insurance.

I think it is worth pointing out that insurance company lobbying efforts can be immoral while at the same time understanding that in a wild west deregulated healthcare market an insurance company can't survive if they don't underwrite. Obvious role for government as a public good.

Right?! And since we’re talking about multi-billion dollar profit generating companies, people really should be warned that the pregnancy alone, regardless of how easy or hard it was, is a preexisting condition. I mean, pre-ACA menstrual cramps were a preexisting condition. Not kidding.

I wonder if "pre-pregnant" counts as a pre-existing condition for this kind of disaster, and sterilization surgery becomes a near-mandatory thing to make health insurance affordable.

This is the true use case for AI, by the way. Would get so bad so fast

I still remember telling my doctor "no, i don't want that diagnosis, it'll follow me forever as a preexisting condition" and him telling me that it was OK now.