Somehow, I've gotten on a health care policy kick.

One of the reasons we need to consider a shift to a Universal Health Care approach is the progression of science. The current system is based on profit. That means a key to making a profit with health care insurance is excluding people who are more likely to be unhealthy from your pool of insured clients. This phenomenon exhibits itself in the form of the "pre-existing condition". The pre-existing condition keeps people tied to their companies who have their health care through those same companies. Human resource experts say this is keeping people from seeking new opportunities in the economy to make the economy even more productive.

The presence of scientific breakthroughs means that a pre-existing condition might be detected through blood tests before that condition can actually break out in the individual. That means even if an individual had no physical symptom of a disease, an insurance company could deny coverage based on blood test results.

Into this discussion comes the passage by Congress last week of a law barring just that sort of practice.

Here is an article about the law as reported by the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/health/policy/02gene.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin