What is to keep private insurance companies from discriminating against

[applegrove]

Democrats if Romney wins and the whole health care field is privatized? I mean more dems that republicans have skipped having health insurance in the past and the Republicans are in no hurry to have that fixed. Don't know if the two are related. But with databases on how people vote in existance and such, what would it take for private insurance corporations and corporations insuring anything to give better health outcomes to Republicans (like treating them for pre-existing conditions)? It would make for more Republican voters over time.

[onenote]

1. Financial self-interest.

Refuse to sell insurance to half of your potential customers. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[valerief]

2. Where is this true? First I heard of it.

mean more dems that republicans have skipped having health insurance in the past

[applegrove]

3. There was a table posted here two weeks ago that talked about that.

I'll look for it.

[cynatnite]

4. The law...

It would be a major HIPAA violation for one thing and probably a few other laws as well. If I'm reading you correctly you're concerned that private insurance companies would give preferential treatment to repubs and would check voter rolls.

Am I misunderstanding you?

[applegrove]

6. I'm just speculating. Thanks. Your post makes me feel better. But yeah - I do

think corporations in the future will be able to pay to get all kinds of information on their clients. Direct mail, political databases.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. What database that tells how people voted? n/t

[applegrove]

7. The database the political parties use, plus direct mail, etc. You don't

think both parties don't know how you vote according to your address?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. How you're registered and how you vote

can easily be two different things.

[applegrove]

9. We don't register to vote in Canada. And we get phone calls from two political

parties who know our names. Which represent the two parties we have voted for in the past. I'm sure the republican political machine is even more exacting. I've worked on a campaign and they have lists, street by street, with names and how strong a supporter each resident is. I don't think information like that is just going to sit dormant. Not when it could be used to make money and the Republican brand stronger.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

10. Maintaining a database of what people have said they're going to do

Is completely different than maintaining a database of how someone actually voted, which is the concern you expressed.

No such thing exists in this country.

[RagAss]

11. Who would do this?

The first company that tried would be eaten alive by the competition.

[applegrove]

12. Oh you hope so. Thankfully Obama is winning and we will not have

to worry about unregulated private health care for all.

[applegrove]

13. We know the GOP have no problem with more people dying. Just so long as they

are not fetuses.