I doubt there is much you could do anyway, except maybe Bob <---works as noun and verb btw.
*snicker*Questions:
1.) Does the R healthcare plan, at present, exclude pre-existing conditions? Or are Jimmy Kimmel and TMN ASSuming it does?
2.) Pre-OhBummerCare, were defects detected at birth excluded from health insurance plans as a pre-existing condition? Or are Jimmy Kimmel and TMN ASSuming that was the case?
I don't know the answers, I just know that when Libs & Progs invoke factoids in support of their ideology, check whether those factoids are actually facts.
#2: I don't have a tremendous amount of experience in this matter, and I don't have kids, so my opinion here is probably not worth the two cents after inflation, but here it is anyway.
I have always read through every insurance option very carefully, be that health insurance, car insurance, whatever. It's probably a little sick and twisted, but I actually look for ways that some insurance is somehow not going to cover me for my needs (hey, it doesn't
specifically say that my roof gets replaced if a meteor crashes into my living room, so I need to have that spelled out in the policy). To that end, I have on more than one occasion demanded some seemingly silly riders on policies: I demanded a rider on my homeowner's insurance that said that if extraterrestrials came to earth and took my wife's engagement or wedding ring, they would be specifically covered, for example. Some of that is admittedly silliness, but it also has the specific benefit of telling the insurance company that I'm not to be toyed with and that they can't bulldoze me should I need to make a claim. More generically, I have demanded things like riders to cover what would seem to be innocuous, such as ensuring that things like pet food and pet medicines would be covered in the event of a total loss on my house, for example. That seems like minutiae on its face, but when your wife is a veterinarian and you have multiple animals in the household with health issues, suddenly having to replace a bunch of medicines if your house burns down can get very expensive very quickly.
To that end, I have carefully read every health insurance plan ever presented to me. To date, I have never encountered a plan that did not cover pretty much everything imaginable when it comes to a baby if maternity coverage is included in the plan. Broadly-speaking, my observation has been that basically everything from conception to at least six months of age is covered, though most plans demand that the baby be added as a dependent within a month or two of birth. Things like premature birth, siamese twins, heart and lung issues, you name it have been covered in every plan I have ever seen. Undies joked about pre-existing conditions not being possible, but in point of fact, if the mother is covered with maternity coverage, then by definition the baby cannot have pre-existing conditions because that baby was insured beforehand, thus negating a pre-existing condition clause in any insurance plan. This is not something new and it didn't magically come about because of Obamafail: I saw this coverage in the early '90s, at a time when I was still considering having children.
Kimmel doubtless has excellent health coverage through NBC, as well he should through contract negotiations. But to pretend that he somehow thinks that we peons never had this option until the Great and Benevolent Obama came on the scene is asinine on its face. With very little exception, we Little People also had good coverage for this long before anyone had ever even heard the name Obama.
