Then I could walk around with a machine readable stop sign and really have fun with traffic. Seems like there's a lot of exploit possibilities with self-driving tech.

Yea, because Comcast never did shady shit during Obama's eight years.

You're referencing things that happened more than two decades ago? Get with the times.

That's not how pre-existing clauses work at all. If you change plans, you get a statement that certifies that you had continuous coverage. With that, the pre-existing condition clause can't be invoked by the new policy.

Employment policies have everything to do with making personal policies scarce and more expensive. Sorry you don't understand supply and demand.

The quoted line is right from the summary. The motive isn't promoting health, it's rationing due to insufficient funding and availability.

Obesity and smoking are not protected classes. Besides which, organ donation already works this way in the US.

You don't understand how insurance works. Pre-existing condition clauses are necessary. Insurance is a risk pool. You spread out the risk by having healthy people paying in to protect themselves should they need care, and that money is used to fund care for people in need. Without the pre-existing condition clause, healthy people wouldn't buy in until they need care. They won't have paid anything in. Enough people do that and there is no pool to draw from.

Personal policies are expensive because the vast majority get their insurance through their place of employment. Like any product, if demand is low, not many companies will provide it and it will cost more.

But one example of why having the government that involved in our lives is a really bad idea. The budget will be manipulated, best not to have the government holding the reigns at all.

Find a different doctor then. You think people just give up if the first surgeon says no, they just go home and die?

It shouldn't be up to the government to "allow" it.

"they had to make best use of the money and resources available"

Their healthcare system doesn't have the money or resource to care for everyone, so they're wait-listing smokers and the obese. If everyone were in similar condition, they would still have to ration care since they have neither the money or resources available. This absolutely falls under "death panel". The goal here isn't to promote healthy lifestyle choices, it's to shorten the queue of people waiting for surgery.

Yes, I totally want our thoroughly corrupt government deciding who lives or dies. That's clearly better than a profit-motive based implementation where an increased demand for surgeries prompts new facilities and more doctors to fulfill the need. Whereas the government would likely ration care and wait-list patients that can't survive that long, with taxpayer funded bonuses to the heartless bastards responsible.

Not anymore.

How do you justify MS removing an application from an already installed Windows system? They shouldn't have to add it back if it was already there to begin with!

The party that sunk Bernie so they could run their choice of candidate, and not the choice of those voting in the primary? It may be a party of democrats, but it's not a democratic party.