Don't take my health insurance away!

All of you defending the status quo should read this. It's short, so stick with it. You can do it:

Dizziness and cough? We're dropping your insurance.

Now, those of you defending the status quo, have you ever had a cough? Have you ever been dizzy? Has your cholesterol ever been less than perfect, or GOD FORBID have you taken a medication for it? Have you ever been TIRED? If you saw me--or any other physician for that matter--for it, then I coded your chart with the ICD-9 codes for those things (which I know by heart, backwards and forwards, upside down, blindfolded, and locked in a closet BECAUSE EVERYBODY COMES IN FOR THOSE THINGS). Not to do so would be fraud, and I don't want to go to jail or pay fines for not calling your fatigue "780.79".

But now your lovely private insurer knows all about it. When you applied for private insurance, by the way, you signed over your rights so that the insurer could share every single thing you've ever been seen for with another insurer. Now, I'm completely, utterly sure that your private insurer would never drop you or any member of your family for costing them money because that wouldn't be nice. They care deeply about each and every one of their flock, right? They would never screw you, right? Not even if it meant they lost money. Their shareholders care deeply about each and every one of you, right? Those shareholders sure wouldn't care losing money if it meant doing the right thing by you, right?

If the goverment takes things over, or offers a private plan that private insurers have to compete with, then golly, getting insurance might be horrible and boring, like going to the BMV. Or getting unemployment. Or mailing a letter. Or getting electricity in your house. Oh my God, there might be forms involved.