A woman with chronic syncope needing pacemaker placement worries about future costs for replacement pacemakers on Ask MeFi . Most posters suggest she move to Canada; one even offers to marry her.

What a mess. Classic example of someone who clearly couldn’t buy her own insurance–it’s doubtful anyone would cover her syncope condition, so she’d be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars over her lifetime for her “pre-existing condition.” Just one of the many problems with an individual mandate.

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