If you get sick under Japan's socialized health care system, the government will set the price of your medicine.
And you won't lose your insurance if you get sick.
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If you get sick, you can immediately become poor.
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In addition to this -- the status quo ensures that you could still be discriminated against based on a preexisting condition, that you could still lose your health insurance if you get sick.
The emerging plan would cobble together several basic insurance reforms that many Republicans have expressed support for, including a ban on excluding people for pre-existing conditions and stopping insurance companies from dropping coverage if you get sick.
We know we're not going to be better off if suddenly we roll back the protections for our air and our water, and protections to make sure that if you get sick there's going to be health care there for you.
The Affordable Care Act forces insurance companies to play by a new set of common sense rules, prohibiting them from dropping your coverage if you get sick, billing you into bankruptcy through annual or lifetime limits, and, soon, discriminating against anyone with a pre-existing condition.
Unless they want to go out there and make the case to the American public that insurance companies deserve more power, that insurance companies deserve the right to kick you off your insurance if you get sick, that they deserve the right to put a lifetime cap on your benefits.
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That means, for example, that they can't impose a lifetime cap where if you really get sick and suddenly there's some fine print in there that says you're not completely covered.
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It can prevent the flu, and it can be beneficial even if you do get sick, said Dr. Bill Schaffner, chairman of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
And if you get really sick, let's say a life-threatening illness and you need really expensive treatment, no longer can insurance companies tell you, sorry, you've hit your lifetime limit and we're not paying a penny more.
If you get -- if you don't have health insurance, hope you don't get sick.
If you can't afford health insurance, hope you don't get sick.
Their basic theory is if you can't afford health insurance, don't get sick.
And we live in a country where if you go sick, you ought not go bankrupt trying to get the type of care and help that you need.
And if somebody does get sick, because there is no ban on preexisting conditions, you can then just go in and get the insurance.
If you come in sick, there's a good chance your co-workers and customers will get sick, too -- and in some cases, passing on your illness can cause potentially life-threatening situations.
And, look, I mean, to be perfectly blunt about it, it's important to get as many people as possible involved in this great insurance pool, if you will, including younger, healthier people who may need to go to the hospital, who may get sick, but who are less likely to than people who are 70 or 80 years old, or people who have preexisting conditions.
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