What that means is that if you have a chronic illness, or you develop one, you're could be uninsurable.
Because only 1% to 2% ever become actually uninsurable like this, this is the most inexpensive option for assuring a safety net.
Once a star has sunk as low as Lohan, she becomes uninsurable.
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After they suffer a severe loss, they may decide that a risk is completely uninsurable rather than determining whether they should increase their premium.
Carriers explained that those expenses were uninsurable costs of doing business and, moreover, insuring the company would reduce benefits for the directors and officers themselves.
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The genetically best-off will choose not to pool their risk with others, the worst-off will find that they have become uninsurable, and the insurance market will shrink.
If agreement can't be reached, hundreds of thousands of homes could become uninsurable, with dire implications for their owners, and Mr Raab is concerned about brinkmanship in the talks.
The vast majority of us could wind up being bad risks because genetically most of us will probably show we are susceptible to something and therefore we will become uninsurable.
You might also keep in mind that pushing the medically uninsurable into government operated programs would be a substantial step forward in increasing the involvement of government in health care.
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Such risk pools already exist in over 30 states, and for the most part they work well at relatively little cost to the taxpayers because few people actually become truly uninsurable.
Some will be lucky enough to carry this belief with them for the rest of their days as they will never face the crisis of becoming uninsurable due to a pre-existing condition.
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Sugerman worries that bariatric surgery will become uninsurable.
New help for some uninsured: People with a medical condition that has left them uninsurable may be able to enroll in a new federally subsidized insurance program that is to be established within 90 days.
Governments thus face a choice between banning the use of test results and destroying the industry, or allowing their use and creating an underclass of people who are either uninsurable or cannot afford to insure themselves.
And yes, there is the matter of the cost of treating the medically uninsurable being passed on to the rest of us via higher premium costs, but it is the opponents of our current health care reform law who are quick to point out that insuring everyone will not lower our premium costs.
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So, with up to 50% of Americans currently afflicted with a pre-existing health condition and 20% of Americans uninsurable as a result (the remainder can still gain coverage through employment) how hard is it to figure out, particularly at a time when people are losing jobs in big numbers in Ohio, that by voting to kill mandates voters are likely voting against their own self-interest?
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