If you don’t have to have insurance until you’re sick, why buy insurance? … How much would insurance be if only people who needed insurance bought it? The whole point of insurance is: healthy people buy it, sick people buy it, and those who are healthy support those who are sick…. But if insurance is only sick people buy it, well guess what’s going to be the cost of insurance. That’s why there’s a preexisting-condition clause.
Grant Gallicho swallows:
Has Santorum been paying attention to the health-care debate? Does he have the slightest idea what the health-care law he’s promised to repeal actually does? … What he’s just described is the signal achievement of the Affordable Care Act. Not only does the law bring coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. It also lowers costs across the health-care system.
