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Originally Posted by pointman
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I wasn't insured for 6 months until this week between the time I quit my job to move and when I got married because I have a preexisting condition which private insurance deems to be too expensive to cover (I'm diabetic, like at least 8% of the population), how do we go about rectifying situations such as that? What if I wasn't able to pay out of pocket for this like most people that would have been in my situation? Is it a GFY or should we have some sort of plan to protect our population from getting buried prematurely?
I don't normally get enthralled with public programs, such as Social Security, which I have paid a quarter million dollars into already in my career only to see $0 in the future, but this is something that needs to be done on the correct scale.