With cradle to grave health insurance there's no such thing as a pre-existing condition

[TrogL]

Was just listening to Smerconish (replay) on SiriusXM POTUS and one of the callers brought up ACA.

Here's the thing...when Craftygal was a teenager in British Columbia something happened (they're still not sure what) and she lost one of her kidneys. She was told that possibly, eventually she might end up on dialysis or need a transplant but for the moment she could toddle along on one kidney.

Jump forward a couple of decades, she moves to Alberta (different health card system but she's automatically enrolled), bad things happen and she's now on dialysis, and is not a good candidate for transplant. She takes DATS (city funded but you pay a bus ticket), there's also in-home workers and Blue Cross pays all her meds except co-pay and the expensive stuff is covered on a grant.

In a different system, as soon as she moved Provinces she'd be a "pre-existing condition" and I'd be bankrupt and/or she'd be dead.