Spread the Outrage

Cara at The Curvature has a post up called "All Denials of Coverage For Pre-Existing Conditions Deserve Equal Outrage."

It talks about how a lot of people find it weirdly wrong that, say, domestic violence or a prior cesarean section delivery can be considered 'pre-existing conditions' and therefore reasons to be denied health insurance.

Then it points out that there's something uneven in the way that only some pre-existing conditions get this attention and are seen as unfair, as if the whole idea of using pre-existing conditions to winnow out expensive customers weren't kind of weirdly wrong on its own from any sort of "let's do good for people" standpoint. Of course it's not about doing good for people, which I guess is part of the disconnect.

I mean, we should all have known better than to have ever gotten sick before if we wanted to be able to afford health insurance, right? What could be more equitable than that?

It's an interesting system we've got here, all right.

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