Democrats Will Give You Six Months to Die

Obamacare promises it will cover everyone, regardless of preexisting conditions. Not so fast:

You're afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down.

Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems.

Wait a second. Read the fine print. You may have to be uninsured for six months to qualify.

"If you are a cancer patient and have cancer now, you can't wait six months to go into a plan because your condition can go from bad to death," said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. He called the waiting period in the Senate bill "unacceptable."

If you don't do your civic duty and die during the six months the government will grudgingly provide coverage for you, but hopefully your case will be so far gone by that point that they won't have to spend much before you expire.

It's all about the money, not the care.