Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 16, 2014

In the finest print of all, at the bottom of page 397, “No claimshall be paid for anything, ever.”

Life is the ultimate pre-existing condition.(This type of weaseling is less legal this year.)

Would be funnier if it weren’t so damned probable.

Sensational!

I don’t want to be paid for “being alive”, I’m claiming for being “near death”.

Life is hereditary; If your parents had it there is a good chance you have it and your offspring will subsequently have it.

Life is not really a pre-existing condition. You catch if from your mother.

Something our Tory government is interested in introducing to Australia

It’s nothing personal. It’s just that we have to pay the freight for socialized medicine, so our customers won’t pay the premiums necessary to cover somebody at your level of risk.This will all be better when the government runs things, as they don’t have the bloated bureaucracy that consumes so much of the money taken in just for administrative purposes and will be able to better manage funds without the need to manage risk by rationing care. Trust me…

Life is a terminal disease.

If you like your government control of healthcare, you can keep your government control of healthcare.

The strings attached to Obamacare.

Job of insurance companies: Hold on to the money.

One national system in which all risks are spread over the entire population.

I am reminded of that scene from The Incredibles in the insurance company with the boss…

lol, the Republican plan aka Obamacare or "don’t get sick, or hurry up and die!

the American way

Please, government, tax me 12% more and just pay for my medical! Stop with all the “now non-formulary medications” that have kept me functional, but now must go away because the insurance company doesn’t want to pay for them! It’s not Affordable Health Care…it is Mandatory Health Insurance, and they are not the same. There….rant for the day accomplished, and don’t I feel better?*Oh………no, not really.

a wonderful ‘I gotcha’

That is why the old medical care system which repugnance (gop) profited from was so crooked.

Oops… this may be an obsolete cartoon. The “no denying of coverage for pre-existing conditions” provision of the ACA kicks in this year.

Wrong – I’m a liberal, but care about unborn children. Don’t generalize.

I don;t know why people take life so seriously; it’s only a temproary situation.

There is no government run health care….Biggest lie the liars have ever lied about…(Out of hundreds just this year…. It’s only an update on regulations, kinda like a new building code, All it does is make things better and safer…..Some people aren’t smart enough, or know the issues enough, to debate issues intelligently, on their merits, so they resort to making things up, and demonizing….Very childish…Like a two year old that discovers the word “No!”..If Obama found a cure for cancer, they would try to stop the cure just to make Obama look bad. Anything to make Obama look bad…Because that is all they have to go with, they have no ideas themselves, Obama took them all and implemented them…….And they’ve pissed off everyone but old white men, an a third of those are independent, another third is Liberal, so that doesn’t add up for republicans that well…Good luck, guys…

Welcome back from a long absence.

Rick can take his business elsewhere IF he can find someone to accept, and IF he can then afford to pay for it. AH, the benefits of corporate capitalism!

This toon reminds me of the conservative idea that every women could be considered “pre-pregnant”.

At least there’s one good side to my current situation. My insurance can’t claim stomach cancer is a preexisting condition when I’ve been covered for years prior. Even if I survive (which is looking doubtful, but hey, well all go some time) they can’t pull the old switcheroo. I read the policy, translated from legalese by my own lawyer, and if they try I can nail them for breach of contract. Or my kin can. Either way the legalized racketeers will end up paying.

Credible citation, please, for Canada’s healthcare “running out of funding.” Canada spends only ~11.5% of GDP (vs US ~17.5% prior to ACA) to cover virtually all their citizens, as opposed to the pre-ACA US, with more than 16% without any insurance. Some data for your spare time excavation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/01/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-canadian-health-care-in-one-post/

I am not sure I understand this comic. Is the insurance agent saying that being alive is a pre-existing condition which disqualifies coverage of the surgery that the patient has just survived?

And yet, insurance companies WILL approve “hospital supplies” like a pap smear kit for my 84 year old father.

Not to mention what is this artificial “life support” doing to the fetus that was also deprived of oxygen for an extended period of time.

These are the same people that claim that adoption is an alternative to abortion, but will NOT themselves adopt , nor provide funding, and then want to restrict who can adopt. Kudos to Michelle Bachman and Deborah Preisse, two Republicans who actually adopted, and truly push for adoption, and better foster regulations. Don’t agree with their political philosophy, but can admit that sometimes actions speak louder than words.