If you get -- if you don't have health insurance, hope you don't get sick.
That said, most people sitting near someone who is ill probably won't get sick.
Their basic theory is if you can't afford health insurance, don't get sick.
It's about emphasizing education and prevention, and helping people lead healthier lives so they don't get sick in the first place.
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If you can't afford health insurance, hope you don't get sick.
And the reason for that is otherwise what would happen is people would just -- just wouldn't get insurance until they were sick and then they'd go and buy insurance and they couldn't be prohibited.
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This is especially true, because we just made it so that if they someday get sick, they are assured they can get insurance, and they won't be penalized for being sick with higher rates.
If they can't get in until a number of years later, many people won't want to take the chance they might get sick in the interim.
It will help give entrepreneurs and all Americans the assurance of knowing they won't go broke when they get sick.
The meat may be cooked, killing any bacteria on it, but if the germs were first spread to another food that isn't cooked, people can get sick.
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Another insurance reform is making sure that insurance companies can't drop you when you get sick, which is a practice, unfortunately, that happens to a lot of people.
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More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care.
They shouldn't go bankrupt when they get sick.
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For diseases like diabetes and heart disease, which have many causes beyond genes, genome sequencing isn't able to predict who will get sick.
And you won't lose your insurance if you get sick.
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We are going to insist that the insurance companies all abide by certain practices like making sure that you take people with preexisting conditions, that you don't drop people just because they get sick.
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It's a problem for Americans for a variety of issues -- from the rising cost of premiums, to the fact that people are getting priced out of health care, to the insurance reforms that are so desperately needed because people with preexisting conditions can't get health insurance, people who get sick are getting kicked off their health insurance.
It has insurance reforms that benefit everybody potentially who has health insurance or currently doesn't have health insurance so that we put an end to, for example, the practice of not being able to get health insurance because of a preexisting condition. (Applause.) We make sure that they can't just drop you when you get sick and you need insurance the most.
Here in America, people are dying because they couldn't get the care they needed when they were sick.
The mother who can't get Medicaid to cover all the needs of her sick child.
The managed-care approach doesn't address the fundamental causes of why people get sick.
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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While I don't know of any medical studies showing that children get sick more commonly on Sundays, it certainly does seem that kids come down with illnesses toward the end of a weekend or holiday break, just in time for school or even practically any time the doctor's office is closed.
This is a law that says insurance companies can't kick you off your insurance coverage just because you get sick.
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More than 30 million men and women and children, mothers and fathers, won't be worried about what might happen to them if they get sick.
The other 10 people on her staff, all part-timers, can take off whenever they're not feeling well or need to care for a sick loved one, she says they just won't get paid during that time.
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