If I crack up cars, get speeding tickets, and have a history of claims on my auto insurance, the company puts me in a risk pool to protect other policy holders.. If I have genetic predespositions, am accident prone, have proven myself a hypochondriac, why shouldn’t insurance put me in a risk pool to protect other policy holders?
The problem is that except for those that die suddenly, we will all eventually be considered to be a high risk. It’s just the nature of living, to grow old, to get sick and to eventually die.
Should someone who has paid health insurance premiums for a lifetime be denied when they need it most? Should hospitals have to take a loss for their treatment, or just pass it along the others in higher medical costs? Why can’t health coverage be portable without being penalized for a preexisting condition?
I’m going to disrupt the flow of comments here to say that I like the “crossing over” effect between panels 5 and 6; it’s one of those artistic touches that you don’t see much of in the funnies these days.
cdward about 15 years ago
That’s what they’re there for.
lewisbower about 15 years ago
If I crack up cars, get speeding tickets, and have a history of claims on my auto insurance, the company puts me in a risk pool to protect other policy holders.. If I have genetic predespositions, am accident prone, have proven myself a hypochondriac, why shouldn’t insurance put me in a risk pool to protect other policy holders?
Charles Brobst Premium Member about 15 years ago
It’s not to protect others, but to protect their own obscenely high profits. Insurance is a scam.
mfrancis24 about 15 years ago
Money for nothing…
McGehee about 15 years ago
…which is why the government wants to require everybody to have it.
jpozenel about 15 years ago
Lewreader:
The problem is that except for those that die suddenly, we will all eventually be considered to be a high risk. It’s just the nature of living, to grow old, to get sick and to eventually die.
Should someone who has paid health insurance premiums for a lifetime be denied when they need it most? Should hospitals have to take a loss for their treatment, or just pass it along the others in higher medical costs? Why can’t health coverage be portable without being penalized for a preexisting condition?
What will you say when it happens to you?
Sherlock Watson about 15 years ago
I’m going to disrupt the flow of comments here to say that I like the “crossing over” effect between panels 5 and 6; it’s one of those artistic touches that you don’t see much of in the funnies these days.