Please, please let me keep the freedom to be denied health coverage

[prolesunited]

because of pre-existing conditions or face recision if I'm lucky enough to get coverage and then actually make a claim.

Give me liberty so I can just die.

[Vinca]

1. That's what it boils down to.

[boobooday]

2. Yes, I want the freedom to fear illness, not for the suffering

but because of the cost, too. That makes it so much more of a gamble/thrill/extreme lifestyle.

[tblue]

3. Let us eat cake! Let us eat cake!

They are so stooopid.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. That needs to be a sign at the next tea bagger rally

[BootinUp]

5. This bill will not force you to go

to the hospital.

[prolesunited]

7. Got sarcasm?

[BootinUp]

15. apparently not at the

instant I responded.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Republicans keep repeating that the bill will limit people's ability to go to their own doctor

and it is an attack on their freedom. I never hear specifics on that notion from Republicans. Is there even a shred of evidence of this?

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. Your death will represent...

...an important milestone on the path to a good bill. Surely you can draw consolation from that in your last hours. Someone's got to take one for Team DU.

[prolesunited]

10. LOL

Fact is I *do* have pre-existing conditions and just about have exhausted COBRA. I am really hoping this passes and I don't die or bankrupt the family before I can get coverage. And given our income, I'm sure we will qualify for a subsidy.

But, if it goes the other way, I'll be sure and let DU know so they can use my life as a political prop in their quest to get a perfect bill right out of the gate.

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. That's proper team spirit.

...we'll mow your uniform number into the outfield grass, or something.

[tmyers09]

9. Haha! I just made a thread about this exact same thing.

Great minds think alike.

[liberalmuse]

12. But every American has health care!

So say the people whose world ends at the tips of their noses. Fuck everyone else.

[prolesunited]

13. Yeah, just go to the ER for emergency chemo

or tumor removal and see where that gets you.

[emulatorloo]

14. LOL - Yeah it is pretty absurd. Recommending

and keeping my fingers crossed!