cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/69844421
No one warned me, when I became a parent, about all the apps that would colonize my phone: the app for the baby monitor where I could gaze at my daughter, even when my husband and I finally had a night out. The app for the Snoo smart bassinet we rented in bleary-eyed desperation, which logged her sleep by the minute. The app where I logged her sleep manually because the Snoo was not accurate enough. And still, I remember thinking that I had been quite restrained. I mean, I didn’t buy the $299 Owlet smart sock, which would send her pulse rate and oxygen saturation directly to my phone, or the $290 Nanit monitor, which would track her every breath.
And that’s just the way the parents are using the data, imagine having all that medical data so when it becomes legal again to exclude people from health insurance for “preexisting conditions” as “Obamacare”/the Affordable Care Act is ever being whiddled away, the insurance companies will have all that evidence of all those conditions right from the data brokers. Just one of many examples of course.
Makes me glad to live in a more civilized world north of the board where we have public healthcare.
For now. They’re trying to make it as shitty as possible to justify to the morons that private healthcare would work better. Enjoy it while you can.
While yes I agree on some of that, <17 can’t be excluded for “preexisting conditions” nor submit medical tests for life insurance anyway, and I believe health insurance is that way too. It’s been a few years since I was licensed.
In the US, health insurance generally depended on the condition, but generally if you were treated for or a doctor was aware of a condition existing you then lost coverage for a period of time,say when you became and no longer qualified for your parent’s insurance, and you then for new insurance and tried to get that conditioning treated, the insurance could deny those claims and you’d be 100% liable for payment. Could be a heart condition, could be depression, could be any chronic condition they had evidence of you knowing existed prior to any gap in coverage regardless of age or how long it had been since you were last treated for that condition. I was top young for life insurance and I wonk in the healthcare industry, so I don’t know the life insurance side as well, but I know even now ADHD and Autism can disqualify you from coverage, since I have those and can’t get coverage outside of employer group coverage or some high cost types of coverage. Also disqualifying for long-term care coverage.
And as we all know fascists can’t change laws.