You were born with a pre-existing condition, and if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not even live long enough to get denied because of a pre-existing condition.
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" He added, "(If) you were born with a pre-existing condition and if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not even live long enough to get denied because of a pre-existing condition.
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"I arrived with a pre-existing condition of cancer," he states.
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Is lacking basic math skills covered as a pre-existing condition?
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"A pre-existing condition, we know what that's like," he said.
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"Pre-existing condition protections will remain the law of the land."
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It's sort of a pre-existing condition, and it's poisoning America.
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Blue Cross also warned the bill "undermines" pre-existing condition rules.
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And 67% said someone in their household has a pre-existing condition.
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No one should lose their health insurance over a pre-existing condition!
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Keep these aspects of it: Elimination of the pre-existing condition exclusion.
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It's a pre-existing condition that left people uninsured prior to Obamacare.
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No longer having an existing condition prevented you from getting health care.
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"I certainly learned ... that under no circumstances should we pass legislation that would in any way diminish the pre-existing condition matter, that nobody in our society should ever be denied healthcare coverage for a pre-existing condition," Rep.
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Trump previously promised pre-existing condition coverage, but that clashes with O'Connor's ruling.
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Medicare costs likely would rise further if pre-existing condition protections are scrapped.
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And the Senate bill may not allow the pre-existing condition waivers anyway.
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It requires insurers to take on customers regardless of any pre-existing condition.
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Is rape considered a pre-existing condition under your amendment, yes or no?
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Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) on Wednesday, referring to the pre-existing condition changes.
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If the states win, ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections will be struck down.
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For the pre-existing condition of British opacity, there really is no cure.
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There is someone whose pre-existing condition will be addressed because of GCHJ.
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In today's G.O.P., cruelty toward the most vulnerable is a pre-existing condition.
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You don't have, no pre-existing condition can stop you from buying in.
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You don't have no pre-existing condition can stop you from buying in.
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Senate Republicans also appear poised to preserve the Obamacare pre-existing condition protections.
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Because of this pre-existing condition, I could be denied coverage without Obamacare.
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Under the #AHCA, he could lose coverage because he has a pre-existing condition.
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" Or maybe, "Thanks, chumps taxpayers, for footing the bill for my pre-existing condition.
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In Anderson's case, it is her daughter, Loretta, who has a pre-existing condition.
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If you had a pre-existing condition, an insurance company could deny you coverage.
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And protections for people with a pre-existing condition shouldn't be put at risk.
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I mean, If you think about it, essentially life is a pre-existing condition.
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And if insurers had to cover that pre-existing condition, they would go bankrupt.
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No pre-existing condition guarantees, no maternity care, mental health or prescription drug coverage.
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Number one, insurance companies can't deny you coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
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They think it's a winner: Polls show strong support for pre-existing condition protections.
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As HuffPost reported last month: This pre-existing condition rhetoric is the small lie.
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But pre-existing condition is a really general term, so what does that include?
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Customers often have had to argue about whether something was a pre-existing condition.
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They're also more likely to be elderly or living with a pre-existing condition.
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His response to the question was to give the reporter a pre-existing condition.
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His spokesman Tyler Sandberg told Axios "he's opposed to any attempt to get rid of pre-existing condition protections" and pointed out that he voted against the Republican Obamacare repeal bill due to the addition of an amendment weakening pre-existing condition protections.
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What if I couldn't get insurance because of the "pre-existing condition" of my pregnancy?
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But that group was divided over Freedom Caucus requests on the pre-existing condition regulations.
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Here, Pocahontas is being denied coverage on the grounds of a tragic pre-existing condition.
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It preserves the ACA's pre-existing condition protections, but eliminates the much-maligned individual mandate.
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Committing unequivocally to pre-existing condition protections would be a fine step toward that stability.
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"Pre-existing condition" is a term used by the insurance industry, not in health care.
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Pre-existing condition protections have always been much more popular than the law over all.
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" Ms. Verma said Thursday that "the A.C.A.'s pre-existing condition protections cannot be waived.
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Everyone in my family has something that could be defined as a pre-existing condition.
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"You kind of have a pre-existing condition just because of your lifestyle," she said.
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Or you may receive a letter of acceptance with exclusions for your pre-existing condition.
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Read more here McCaskill presses Trump official on lawsuit against pre-existing condition protections. Sen.
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If you have a pre-existing condition, it could increase your out-of-pocket costs.
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Half of Texans below the age of 65 have at least one pre-existing condition.
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All these provisions were an attempt to alleviate the pre-existing condition problem, not exacerbate it.
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" His release followed two nights of care for an infection stemming from a "pre-existing condition.
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Chevron said it welcomed the review "to clarify the existing condition" on the carbon capture project.
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Or the "pre-existing condition" of sexual assault or domestic violence, both more prominent in women?
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Some companies even considered domestic violence and rape a pre-existing condition before the Obamacare era.
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As some pointed out, it's almost as if being a woman is a pre-existing condition.
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Chase's son, Leo, has cerebral palsy, which is considered a pre-existing condition under the AHCA.
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In Missouri, Hawley has run an advertisement revealing that his son has a pre-existing condition.
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It's the second-most common pre-existing condition in the country, according to a 2005 study.
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Some Republican governors are considering opting out of pre-existing condition policies if the opportunity arises.
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Pre-existing condition protections and coverage for young adults up to age 26 couldn't be waived.
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On Wednesday, Trump tweeted that he supported the legislation since it included pre-existing condition coverage.
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They said the changes undermined GOP claims in the midterms to safeguard pre-existing condition protections.
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Less regulation, so that insurers can turn you down if you have a pre-existing condition.
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The mandate and pre-existing condition exclusions were flawed, but to an extent, they were effective.
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The AARP says 40 percent of people ages 50 to 64 have a pre-existing condition.
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Freedom Caucus members think they're being unfairly accused of getting rid of all pre-existing condition coverage.
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But the idea that health care could be -- and pre-existing condition protection could be in jeopardy.
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Under Obamacare, you can't be discriminated against by a healthcare company for having a pre-existing condition.
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Like many Republicans, he is fighting back by stressing his own support for pre-existing condition protections.
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Pregnancy is sometimes considered a pre-existing condition and may complicate the process of getting life insurance.
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No income, very small family size, no pre-existing condition—and no ability to qualify for anything.
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"I arrived with a pre-existing condition of cancer," says expat Curt Noe, who lives in Medellín.
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The department previously argued in court that the law's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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No American could be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, the House Republican plan says.
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High-risk pools can also ensure that coverage is available to anyone with a pre-existing condition.
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The department previously argued in court that the law's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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Proposed GOP replacement bills last year would also allow states to waive certain pre-existing condition protections.
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First, employer-based or group carriers could not deny you coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
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During his confirmation hearings, Kavanaugh declined to say whether he would uphold ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections.
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He has told personal stories about his wife being denied insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
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Republicans know this, which is why they are lying about wanting to defend pre-existing condition protections.
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Meanwhile, Prince Philip spent four nights in hospital for a pre-existing condition over the Christmas period.
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Without an autopsy, there is no way to know whether Dylan had an unidentified pre-existing condition.
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Prince Philip was admitted to a London hospital over a "pre-existing condition" this week, CNN reported.
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But in the years before Obamacare went into full effect, a program called the Pre-Existing Condition Plan, or PCIP allowed people to sign up for heavily subsidized coverage if they had documentation proving they had been denied coverage by an insurance company and had a pre-existing condition.
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That would absolutely exacerbate "the pre-existing condition problem," by allowing insurers to charge those people higher premiums.
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I have no idea yet if the concussion created the problem or just exacerbated an already existing condition.
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Sanders shot back that before Obamacare, Shahid Rowe's pregnancy would have been treated as a pre-existing condition.
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If you have a chronic or pre-existing condition, you might be charged more or denied coverage altogether.
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The royal was hospitalized for an infection stemming from a "pre-existing condition" for two nights in June.
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He was hospitalized for an infection stemming from a "pre-existing condition" for two nights in June 2017.
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Handel pushed back forcefully, pointing out that her sister was born without an esophagus -- a pre-existing condition.
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They also can't charge one person in the association a higher premium because of a pre-existing condition.
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Before the ACA, their wounds might have been deemed a pre-existing condition and a barrier to coverage.
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"We must stop allowing partisanship to be a pre-existing condition that prevents meaningful health reform," Collins added.
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"The bottom line is, today in Wisconsin, everyone living with a pre-existing condition is covered," Walker said.
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How to deal with the pre-existing condition protections while repealing ObamaCare is a thorny issue for Republicans.
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Ten Republican Senators have filed a bill called the Ensuring Coverage for Patients with Pre-Existing Condition Act.
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The Trump administration previously argued in court that the law's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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Recently, I was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, P.S.C., a rare liver disease related to an existing condition.
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"France Galop was thinking the facility in its existing condition was too big and also uncomfortable," Perrault said.
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Surveillance could theoretically reveal if a prospective insurance buyer has a pre-existing condition or mental health issues.
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Thankfully, I had kept my insurance coverage, as the A.C.A. wouldn't prohibit pre-existing condition exclusions until 2014.
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The desire to unveil the personal is at the core of Carolyn Lazard's video "Pre-Existing Condition" (2019).
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Once again, President Trump was not truthful about his actions in court to destroy pre-existing condition protections.
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Her mother had survived breast cancer but could not afford health care due to her pre-existing condition.
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Kim Schrier (D-Washinton) -- pre-existing condition patient advocate and stage IIIC colon cancer patient Jenell Payne TamaelaRep.
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The Trump administration has supported it, specifically calling for the pre-existing condition protections to be struck down.
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In short, rape could once again become a pre-existing condition that insurance companies could deny coverage for.
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The royal was hospitalized for an infection stemming from a "pre-existing condition" for two nights in June 2017.
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Consider the unlucky person with the most costly pre-existing condition in a world without government intervention in healthcare.
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Will our sex go back to being a pre-existing condition for me and America's other 6900 million women?
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The "30 for 30" campaign features stories from Missourians with a pre-existing condition each day for 30 days.
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Look for Democrats to step up their attacks on Republicans for undermining the health law's pre-existing condition protections.
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Beware: you could be charged higher rates or be turned away completely if you have a pre-existing condition.
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And Sessions is far from alone among vulnerable Republicans in seeking to express support for pre-existing condition protections.
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She is also a small, living metaphor for the bitter irony of any debate over pre-existing condition protections.
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I recovered, but as a child I was also branded with the words, 'pre-existing condition' and denied coverage.
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The bill does preserve access to health-care coverage but permits denial of expenses for a pre-existing condition.
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Missouri GOP Senate candidate Josh Hawley is taking some heat for saying he supports pre-existing condition protections. Why?
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" What changed: "The DOJ previously argued in court that the law's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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How to deal with the pre-existing condition protections while repealing ObamaCare is a thorny issue for the GOP.
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In Illinois, Lauren Underwood shares how her own heart condition, SVT, makes her someone with a pre-existing condition.
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I needed a flexible work schedule, but because of my pre-existing condition, I couldn't let my insurance lapse.
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The amendment is very clear: Under no circumstance can people be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
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But the Republican proposal also raises a more basic issue: Who will decide what constitutes a pre-existing condition?
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Carol keeps trying to choose the life she doesn't even want, with death drive as her pre-existing condition.
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Meanwhile, Republicans continue to press for the repeal of the ACA's coverage expansions, and its pre-existing condition protections.
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Philip was taken to hospital as a precaution for treatment of an existing condition, Buckingham Palace said last week.
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Ms. Underwood, a nurse, has a pre-existing condition that occasionally prevents her heart from maintaining a normal rhythm.
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One in two Americans has a pre-existing condition, according to an analysis from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Even as Trump has publicly backed pre-existing condition coverage, his administration has helped to put the provision in jeopardy.
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It's coverage she says she was grateful to have after years of being denied because of her pre-existing condition.
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Some opponents of the American Health Care Act claim the bill weakens protections for patients with a pre-existing condition.
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Yet a ruling against the law's pre-existing condition protections may be what's needed to push the two parties together.
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Both of these kinds of plans do not have to follow the same pre-existing condition protections as ObamaCare plans.
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Does this mean that they want to punish people for being born with a proclivity toward a pre-existing condition?
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Heitkamp is also attacking Cramer for supporting a Trump administration-backed lawsuit that would eliminate ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections.
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Many who sought medical treatment after sexual assault are now concerned that it could be considered a pre-existing condition.
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They also argue that the key pre-existing condition protections cannot be separated from the mandate and should be invalidated.
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If the ACA is repealed, she could face the reality of having no health coverage with a pre-existing condition.
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In August, Republican senators announced legislation to preserve protections for pre-existing condition if the Affordable Care Act was dissolved.
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Because of the A.C.A., we were able to buy coverage, even though somehow pregnancy is considered a pre-existing condition.
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The bill does not define rape as a pre-existing condition, and neither did insurers before the Affordable Care Act.
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"He just doesn't care if you have a pre-existing condition," Bloomberg says of Trump in one of his ads.
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The plan "would take our nation back to the days when being a woman was a pre-existing condition," Reps.
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And it's giving these plans the greenlight to refuse to cover any treatment that is related to someone's pre-existing condition.
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Obamacare eliminated lifetime caps and made it so insurance companies couldn't discriminate against you if you had a pre-existing condition.
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Since insurers would be able to determine what is considered a pre-existing condition, postpartum depression could be on the list.
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Individuals could have been denied coverage or charged higher rates based on health status, or had pre-existing condition exclusions imposed.
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He added that before Obamacare his son might not have been able to get coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
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Obamacare prevents insurance companies from charging women more or denying pregnant women coverage altogether by considering pregnancy a pre-existing condition.
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The knowledge that I could not be denied coverage because I have a pre-existing condition has given me indescribable peace.
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My state, Massachusetts, is one of seven that had pre-existing condition protections in place even before the ACA became law.
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A high school student asked, looking for a yes-or-no, one-word answer: Is rape considered a pre-existing condition?
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Many vulnerable Republicans have sought to blunt the attacks by pledging support in recent ads for ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections.
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Many doctors groups were also opposed and many insurers eventually weighed in against provisions to change ObamaCare pre-existing condition rules.
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This is especially the case when the law prohibits health insurance companies from charging you extra for any pre-existing condition.
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Many may feel greater pressure to keep working, even if they have an existing condition that makes Covid-19 more dangerous.
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Your insurance company has opened a fraud investigation because they believe you had cancer as a pre-existing condition, she told me.
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Under this scenario, don't be so confident that you, with your pre-existing condition, will be able to get health insurance rapidly.
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Dean Heller discovered firsthand today how dangerous Trumpcare can be for constituents who don't want to lose Obamacare's pre-existing condition coverage.
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LOOKING AHEAD... THURSDAY -- OBAMACARE -- House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee holds a hearing on pre-existing condition coverage and other reform ideas.
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Coverage The ACA was designed to provide health care insurance for every American regardless of age, income level and pre-existing condition.
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According to the Center for American Progress, premiums could increase by $17,000 for people with the pre-existing condition of being pregnant.
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The leaders of the Freedom Caucus were not there, however, and the most contentious issues, around pre-existing condition protections, remain unresolved.
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That's a far cry from the Obama administration's claim that 6900 million Americans with a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage.
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They inched closer to that goal when the MacArthur amendment created the pre-existing condition waivers, which clinched the Freedom Caucus' support.
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" But he'd keep certain aspects of Obamacare: "If I'm president, a pre-existing condition will never be acceptable to deny you insurance.
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The effort is meant to put Republicans on the record against pre-existing condition protections ahead of the midterm elections next month.
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Federal statutes now mean that medical insurers generally can't charge more for a "pre-existing condition" or take genetic information into account.
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Being female or pregnant is no longer considered a pre-existing condition that can result in being denied coverage or charged more.
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The statement comes as the Trump administration is currently arguing in court that ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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The Republicans surely knew that the stripping away of the mandate would help them rip up pre-existing condition protections, of course.
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There's no clear-cut definition of "pre-existing condition," so this list goes on and on, affecting Americans of all political stripes.
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The distance did nothing to lift the weight on my heart, as the parent of a child with a pre-existing condition.
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Welch was taken to Bayfront Hospital, where doctors discovered he had a pre-existing condition that was previously unknown to the family.
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In so doing, CMS has inadvertently turned not being able to afford your health insurance premium into the new 'pre-existing condition.
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And you would not be able to access this free market even if you're well off if you have a pre-existing condition.
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Like Trump, Dean Heller in Nevada, Kevin Cramer in North Dakota, and Martha McSally in Arizona insist they support pre-existing condition protections.
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Republican officials in 20 states, including 10 with competitive Senate races, have sued to eliminate all Obamacare regulations, including pre-existing condition protections.
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Among the most popular are those pushing him to act on climate change, and to keep the pre-existing condition clause in Obamacare.
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If your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not even live long enough to get denied because of your pre-existing condition.
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The best way to prevent your vagina from becoming a pre-existing condition is to simply never have one in the first place.
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J., a leading moderate who negotiated with leaders of conservative Freedom Caucus to include the pre-existing condition waiver amendment in the bill.
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Two high-school seniors asked MacArthur whether or not his amendment defined rape as a pre-existing condition, which he refused to answer.
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Democrats have been on the attack over pre-existing condition protections in races across the country, hitting Republicans for their ObamaCare repeal votes.
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O'Connor expressed skepticism that the pre-existing condition protections could be separated, saying previous judges who examined the issue found those sections inseparable.
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The campaign, called "30 for 30," will feature stories from a new Missourian with a pre-existing condition each day for 30 days.
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Meanwhile, we're having hearings on lowering prescription drug prices, preserving the pre-existing condition, massive hearings on building the infrastructure of our country.
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Last month, 10 GOP senators introduced legislation they say would maintain the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in the event the lawsuit succeeds.
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Rather than trying to fix the pre-existing condition provisions in the House bill, the Senate should take them off the table, permanently.
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Mr. Hawley describes how one of his "two perfect little boys" has a rare disease that would be considered a pre-existing condition.
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The majority of Republicans in the caucus are uncomfortable touching the pre-existing condition language in the Senate bill, GOP insiders say. Sen.
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Before the Affordable Care Act, several states did not have laws that prohibited insurers from counting domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.
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Only one company in our state would cover me because of my pre-existing condition (spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital motor neuron disease).
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The Republicans now have a pre-existing condition: They voted for something that will cause them a lot of pain in the future.
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Without the pre-existing condition, Congress needed a different way to induce healthy people to buy insurance, so lawmakers enacted the individual mandate.
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Since I have a pre-existing condition (T-1 diabetic since a teen), the A.C.A. was going to be my bridge to Medicare.
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In those states, if someone with a pre-existing condition has kept themselves insured, they wouldn't be charged more because of their health condition.
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If you've been seriously ill in the past or need ongoing treatment, consider looking for a plan that offers a pre-existing condition waiver.
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It's hard to read the rest of the list and not feel like according to Republicans, being a woman is a pre-existing condition.
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There is no deal yet on a range of contentious issues, ranging from phasing out ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion to repealing pre-existing condition rules.
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Essentially, a repeal here makes female anatomy a pre-existing condition, which is a bummer since protections for those fall under Title I, too.
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The truth is, despite our various medical histories or genetic signatures, everyone in the world has the same pre-existing condition: We are alive.
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It is the pre-existing condition of America, and it's time to kill it once and for all, before it kills us all first.
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Democrats dismissed Cruz's recent pledge by pointing to his record and saying he is simply lying about his support for pre-existing condition protections.
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We're back to battling for birth control and for our vaginas to not be considered a pre-existing condition that's literally up for grabs.
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Democrats made the threat from this lawsuit to popular pre-existing condition protections a key part of their argument in the campaign this year.
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Now at age 61, Keri is able to get the health care she needs without being punished financially for having a pre-existing condition.
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They paint a dire picture of the world before ObamaCare and suggest that any pre-existing condition would have prevented you from getting coverage.
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O'Connor expressed skepticism that the pre-existing condition protections could be separated, saying past judges to examine the issue had found those sections inseparable.
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The Trump administration argued that the pre-existing condition protections should be overturned despite the president's promise that such coverage would not be impacted.
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"Many women could not get coverage or healthcare for the birth of a child because they had a pre-existing condition, pregnancy," she said.
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Ultimately, he voted for a more stripped-down plan that would have kept pre-existing condition protections while eliminating other key parts of Obamacare.
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The collecting compulsion was a pre-existing condition when Mr. Ollie met his future wife in 2003 at the National Black Fine Art Show.
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Time passed and Klein says his condition got worse, so Nassif referred him to some colleagues, who blamed it on a pre-existing condition.
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"We take great care to ensure prospective members understand what is considered a pre-existing condition and what is eligible for sharing," it said.
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And if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition.
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He was taken to a local hospital and diagnosed with a pre-existing condition unknown to the family that caused his brain to bleed.
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But some lawmakers have expressed impatience with the pace of legislative efforts on the one issue they agree on: protecting pre-existing condition coverage.
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With this one, your child with a pre-existing condition will get the care he needs if and only if your father is Jimmy Kimmel.
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Before the Affordable Care Act, on the individual market, companies often wouldn't sell a plan to someone who had a chronic or pre-existing condition.
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But when I began chemo, my insurance company opened a fraud investigation because it thought I might've hidden my cancer as a pre-existing condition.
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No one would lose insurance coverage and the popular protection against pre-existing condition exclusions that President Trump has indicated he favors will be retained.
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And it's given more than 85033 million people insurance and it's repealed the most insidious thing that affected millions of families: the pre-existing condition.
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Specifically, Heyman said he was asking Price whether suffering from domestic violence would be classified as a so-called pre-existing condition under that bill.
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Women with the "pre-existing condition" of being pregnant could see premiums increase by as much as $17,000, according to the Center for American Progress.
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Consequently, this relationship is what has caused the problem of pre-existing condition exclusions — because insurance is neither portable nor personally owned by the individual.
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The Trump administration, in a rare move, declined to defend the law in court and instead argued the pre-existing condition protections should be overturned.
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The Trump administration, in a rare move, declined to defend the law in court, arguing instead that the pre-existing condition protections should be overturned.
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Democrats are pouncing on the issue, accusing Republicans of wanting to overturn ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections and health coverage for about 20 million people.
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As a doctor, I've seen firsthand the importance of adequate, affordable healthcare coverage for people living with a life-threatening illness and pre-existing condition.
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But they could exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions for up to year and this is a problem for someone with a pre-existing condition.
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In 2018, 1 in 2023 Americans lived in a household where a family member has a pre-existing condition that is protected under current law.
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Once the individual mandate is repealed, they want "continuous coverage" rules so people have to keep themselves insured if they want pre-existing condition coverage.
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Congressional Republicans nullified the law's individual mandate, and now the Justice Department is using that move to try to knock out pre-existing condition protections.
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"They certainly did not believe in any way, shape or form that they were taking away subsidies and pre-existing condition protections," Mr. Elias said.
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I couldn't buy a private policy, because companies either rejected me or imposed a "pre-existing condition clause," leaving uncovered anything related to my epilepsy.
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ELIMINATES PRE-EXISTING CONDITION PROTECTIONS The bill allows states to waive the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing conditions without charging higher premiums.
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But a 21812-year-old with a pre-existing condition could have been denied coverage or charged much more before the Affordable Care Act's passage.
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According to an audio recording Mr. Heyman provided, he asked whether domestic violence was going to be a pre-existing condition under the new legislation.
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With this one, your child with a pre-existing condition will get the care he needs - if, and only if, his father is Jimmy Kimmel.
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Members of the House, however, introduced a bill last week to preserve the pre-existing condition ban, signaling that it would have to be passed separately.
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He's centered his run for Congress on saving pre-existing condition protections of the Affordable Care Act and often talks about his personal experience with cancer.
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One in four people have a pre-existing condition that could have prevented them from getting health insurance pre-Obamacare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In fact, the way Republican negotiators won over support from the conservative Freedom Caucus was to agree that states could waive the pre-existing condition mandate.
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During Congress's current spring recess, GOP lawmakers have faced pressure from constituents at town halls to vote against repeal and protect the pre-existing condition provisions.
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One Fiverr community member in Orange County was able to get insurance through Covered California after being denied coverage due to her son's pre-existing condition.
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Democrats got more fodder on Wednesday for their efforts to highlight the Trump administration move to overturn ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections in their midterm campaign.
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Obamacare was created in part so people could find a plan that was affordable and would cover them even if they had a pre-existing condition.
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A candidate's support for pre-existing condition protections was the top issue among Democratic and independent voters, while it was the second-highest issue among Republicans.
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For our nation's health care, the Affordable Care Act creates a dangerous pre-existing condition all its own — and now is the time to resolve it.
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Shockingly, Trump's Department of Justice has agreed with this claim about the so-called individual mandate, asserting that pre-existing condition protections are illegal as well.
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Trump told "60 Minutes" and the Wall Street Journal he really liked that aspect of Obamacare, but for Price, your pre-existing condition isn't a priority.
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But that insurance didn't cover Lauren's very expensive medications and, since she now had a pre-existing condition, we couldn't shift to a policy that would.
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But the bad news is that as many as 30 percent of people without a pre-existing condition will develop one in the next eight years.
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As of March 219, only one child at the hospital had died—a 230-month old with a pre-existing condition who went into multiorgan failure.
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"Among the 1,4363 deaths, a majority have been (over) 60 years of age and/or have had pre-existing … condition," the researchers said in the report.
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One Colorado woman with a pre-existing condition had been covered by a high-risk pool for years, but her insurance plan was canceled under Obamacare.
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But it also boosts spending on subsidies, and it leaves in place the pre-existing-condition rules that drive up the cost of insurance for everyone.
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It would kill the individual mandate, but keep pre-existing condition protections and the under-26 age limit for young adults to stay covered by their parents.
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Both parties want to preserve pre-existing condition protections, their argument goes, so repealing the ACA with enough lead time would force Congress to pass a replacement.
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Before Obamacare, some insurance companies used to consider medical treatment related to domestic violence and rape a pre-existing condition that would preclude survivors from getting insurance.
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Even with the House bill's state waivers, most states, we were told, have their own laws preventing sexual assault from being treated as a pre-existing condition.
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The Prince, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, was being treated at London's King Edward VII Hospital for an infection arising from a pre-existing condition.
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However, Trump's administration is currently arguing in court that ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down, a point Democrats were quick to make in response.
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Four incoming House Democratic chairmen on Friday pressed the Trump administration for answers about its decision to call for overturning ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections in court.
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What this means for politicians: Republicans are tying themselves in knots to parry attacks from Democrats accusing them of wanting to take away pre-existing condition protections.
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Forty-two percent of adults said being denied coverage for a pre-existing condition is a major concern, compared to the 61 percent worried about higher premiums.
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Companies could turn her down because of her pre-existing condition, or they would make her wait a certain amount of time before they'd cover her care.
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If they succeed, insurance companies will again be able to deny coverage or charge higher premiums for more than 130 million Americans with a pre-existing condition.
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They also argue that key pre-existing condition protections cannot be separated from the mandate and should be invalidated, while the remainder of the law can stay.
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"I did universal health-care when I was mayor — fully implemented, regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay, and regardless of your immigration status," he said.
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He argued that under "TrumpCare," if a person has a pre-existing condition or is sick, he or she will see their healthcare costs go up substantially.
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Over five years, those premium surcharges sum to $36.7 billion or four and a half times the $8 billion set aside for the pre-existing condition subsidies.
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With fewer healthy people in the pool, marketplace premiums will rise for people who are sick, effectively returning us to the days of pre-existing condition prohibitions.
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Angry at my fear of the virus, because I can't tell how dangerous it really isThe coronavirus mainly affects older people and people with an existing condition.
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Getting older — and thus joining a group with much higher average health costs than the rest of the population — is, after all, the ultimate pre-existing condition.
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"Republicans are suddenly claiming to support pre-existing condition protections," Topher Spiro, vice president for health policy at the liberal Center for American Progress, tweeted on Tuesday.
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Azcue told Business Insider his insurer had originally required him to provide three years of medical records proving the flu didn't relate to a pre-existing condition.
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It was the subject of Republican Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley's "Driven" ad, in which the state's attorney general says his son has a pre-existing condition.
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Walsh rejected the congressional health insurance plan for his own family, although his wife Helene had a pre-existing condition and needed surgery while the couple was uninsured.
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He has been one of the leaders in rounding up votes for the bill, but he drew a lot of attention for defending Obamacare's pre-existing condition protections.
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The card covers those who get ill or have an accident while abroad, or have a serious pre-existing condition that needs regular attention, such as kidney dialysis.
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Here's a good piece by my Kaiser Family Foundation colleague Tricia Neuman about a friend who was turned down for Medigap coverage because of his pre-existing condition.
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The Republican-controlled Congress attempted to repeal the ACA in 2016 but fell short because they could not agree on a replacement to preserve pre-existing condition protections.
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Why tell your doctor that you're experiencing post-partum depression when the insurance industry could use it against you later as evidence of a nasty pre-existing condition?
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One doesn't have to understand ObamaCare to realize that what repeal actually meant was that their Uncle Bobby just lost his coverage because of his pre-existing condition.
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Since rare diseases are often hereditary, several members of the same family may find themselves in the same precarious financial position because of their shared pre-existing condition.
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"You can see a case like that lead to a bipartisan push to maintain pre-existing condition protections," said Chris Sloan, a director at the consulting firm Avalere.
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With its pre-existing condition coverage, the passing of the ACA meant that insurance providers in the US were no longer able to deny diabetics coverage or treatment.
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The AHCA will again make being a woman a pre-existing condition and strip 24 million people of their health insurance — 14 million in the first year alone.
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Some components will likely remain, but others (for example, pre-existing condition limitations and 1095 filing requirements) are likely to be wiped off the map in their entirety.
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He said they spent an entire election cycle vowing to support and uphold the pre-existing condition protections, but then turned around and voted to advance Readler's nomination.
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"If your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition," he said at the time.
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Weeks into the job, the insurer rejected a bill for my anticonvulsants; unknown to me until that moment, the magazine's insurance policy included a pre-existing condition clause.
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The bill does not define rape as a pre-existing condition, though sexual assault victims could face higher insurance costs because of resulting trauma or sexually transmitted diseases.
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States would be permitted to waive pre-existing condition protection as long as they still provide "adequate and affordable" coverage — but what qualifies as "affordable" is left undefined.
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Democratic attacks on Republican efforts to repeal ObamaCare and weaken pre-existing condition protections proved successful in the 2018 midterms, when Democrats won back control of the House.
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Heyman said earlier this week that he was arrested after repeatedly asking Price whether domestic violence is considered a pre-existing condition under the new GOP healthcare bill.
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While the sham replacement they offer would guarantee people with a pre-existing condition the right to buy coverage, insurers could refuse to pay bills for the condition.
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Democrats won back the House last year with a focus on health care, one that largely emphasized GOP attacks on ObamaCare and its pre-existing condition protections. Sen.
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When asked about conservatives' proposal to let states opt out of Obamacare's pre-existing condition coverage rules, earlier this week, he told Politico: But yesterday he told the AP:
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Have you experienced a pregnancy loss, an abortion, or any other concern due to that pre-existing condition called womanhood which ended up costing a crazy amount of money?
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Tucker has been hammering Hill for voting in favor of the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare, but Hill counters that the bill did preserve pre-existing condition protections.
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Before the ACA, health insurers could and did deny coverage for children born with heart problems, like his son, because the carriers claimed it was a pre-existing condition.
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Of the 11 states in which 30% or more of the under-65 population has some sort of pre-existing condition, all 11 were won by Trump in 2016.
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Kimmel said that, before Obamacare, he might not have been able to get health insurance for his son because Billy's heart defect would be considered a pre-existing condition.
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In the House bill, states could seek waivers so insurers don't have to charge people who see their insurance lapse the same if they have a pre-existing condition.
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According to the analysis released Wednesday, 85033 million people who have a pre-existing condition also have had gaps in coverage that would lead to a substantial premium increase.
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And, theoretically again, this would lower premiums and increase coverage, with the caveat that it would be totally useless if you were sick or had a pre-existing condition.
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But that wouldn't be an entirely fair assumption given all the work the Republicans put into setting up risk pools and other means to fund pre-existing condition patients.
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The GOP is less cohesive on this topic, but most Republican lawmakers recognize that the pre-existing condition provision is a hot button political issue that must be discussed.
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But actions speak louder than words, and recent actions from the Trump administration are complicating efforts of vulnerable Republicans to show their support for those pre-existing condition protections.
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As many as one in two Americans has some kind of illness or condition that was, at one time, considered a pre-existing condition by insurance companies before Obamacare.
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The 6900 million non-elderly Americans with a condition on this list are as anxious for the return of pre-existing condition exclusions as the return of bubonic plague.
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The newer proposal would only have allowed states to get a waiver from the regulations on what a plan must cover, not the pre-existing condition protections, he said.
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The problem: GOP efforts are complicated by the lawsuit backed by the Trump administration seeking to overturn pre-existing condition protections, as well as GOP repeal votes last year.
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Democrats argue that Republicans' repeal votes last year, as well as the lawsuit joined by the Trump administration, show that they do not really support pre-existing condition protections.
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A bipartisan group of governors on Monday called on the Trump administration to reverse its decision to argue in court that ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections should be overturned.
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Health is on the ballot Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, complained about Democrats trying to paint the GOP as the enemy of pre-existing-condition coverage.
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Democrats, sensing that protecting pre-existing condition provisions is a winning political issue, are sounding the alarm over a legal challenge from Texas and 19 other GOP-led states.
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If you have a pre-existing condition, you still have to be able to get health care, and you ought to be able to stay on your parents' plan.
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The first is the guaranteed issue provision, which prohibits insurers from charging more to people who have cancer, or any pre-existing condition, than to whose who do not.
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VICE: Nora, did you have any choices like that to make when you signed up with the NHS—higher premiums for out of network, or pre-existing condition concerns?
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"A pregnancy existing on the effective date of coverage will also be considered a pre-existing condition," say brochures for short-term plans offered by UnitedHealth and other companies.
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"He is just dead wrong, and that ain't gonna happen," says Manchin, who has often mentioned his knee replacement as a pre-existing condition during his re-election run.
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Britain's Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, was taken to hospital on Friday as a precaution for treatment of an existing condition, Buckingham Palace said.
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But the group still wants to get rid of the pre-existing condition regulations, and it's not clear how much the new provision will do to lock up their support.
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By declining to defend Obamacare, the Trump administration tacitly supported the litigation, which could lead to the end of the pre-existing condition provision if the states win their lawsuit.
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On Tuesday, Philip was by the Queen's side at the Royal Ascot races, but he was hospitalized later that evening for treatment of an infection from a pre-existing condition.
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These Obamacare protections are personal for Underwood because she herself has a pre-existing condition known as supraventricular tachycardia, a cardiac condition that causes occasional episodes of abnormal heart beat.
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Between the lines: Cruz's "Consumer Choice" proposal is divisive within the GOP — some say Senate Republicans had already agreed not to waive any of the ACA's pre-existing condition rules.
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She is relatively healthy, but before Obamacare, she had a hard time getting insurance because of what some companies considered a pre-existing condition: She is a domestic violence survivor.
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" The American Cancer Society expressed concerns that the bill will leave cancer patients unable to pay for plans, arguing that the bill would make pre-existing condition protections "virtually meaningless.
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Which reminds me: Why aren't reporters going state by state to see which governors, if any, will touch the new third rail of politics — eliminating the pre-existing condition restriction?
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Scott Walker (R) says he would consider opting his state out of rules governing pre-existing condition coverage, after the House GOP passed a healthcare bill allowing such a move.
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" The American Medical Association, in a letter opposing the revised bill, warned that allowing insurers to charge much higher rates to sick people would make pre-existing condition protections "illusory.
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Trump and the Republican leadership have said that we should keep the pre-existing condition reforms and kids should be able to stay on their parent's plans until age-26.
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Second, they must address the two politically popular aspects of ObamaCare—no pre-existing condition exclusion and allowing children to stay on their family policy until the age of 26.
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Bill Cassidy (R-La.), are speaking out in favor of pre-existing condition protections and endorsing a "Jimmy Kimmel test" for the bill, where no one can be denied coverage.
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People who never before had access to health coverage, because they had a pre-existing condition like diabetes or heart disease, are now able to get the care they need.
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Those could be considered "pre-existing conditions" A 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 2010% of Americans say they or someone in their family has a pre-existing condition.
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On Sunday, Trump told Face the Nation host John Dickerson that Republicans are "changing" the bill so that pre-existing condition protections are "permanent" rather than "optional" for the states.
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Forty-one percent of poll respondents said they were "very worried" that they or a family member will lose coverage if the Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections.
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The move is certain to prompt new denunciations from Democrats, who had already seized on the Trump administration's earlier call for the pre-existing condition protections to be struck down.
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Manchin is now pointing to a new Senate GOP bill that aims to preserve ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections as a rebuke to Morrisey's position in court against those provisions.
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But that's off the table, senior GOP aides say, because most Republican senators have already decided they don't want to undermine the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in any way.
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Internet searches on whether rape is a pre-existing condition started to spike again on Wednesday, the day before the House voted to repeal and replace the health care law.
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"The overwhelming majority of the incidents were attributed to animals not being acclimated to its crate or the animal having a pre-existing condition we weren't aware of," Hobart said.
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After the queen recorded her message, Prince Philip, 98, was admitted to a London hospital for what Buckingham Palace described as a precautionary measure to treat a pre-existing condition.
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"The pre-existing condition debate and discussion in Congress, far as I'm concerned, is over," Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania and a member of the Freedom Caucus, said Tuesday.
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" "By financing state high risk pools to guarantee people get affordable coverage when they have a pre-existing condition like yourself, you are dramatically lowering the price for everybody else.
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But according to the analysis released Wednesday, 6.3 million people who have a pre-existing condition also have had gaps in coverage that would lead to a substantial premium increase.
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On Tuesday, a woman in a wheelchair announced that she had traveled from Illinois and had a pre-existing condition, something that was recently ruled on by the Supreme Court.
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Walker said this week he would consider opting his state out of rules governing pre-existing condition coverage after the House GOP passed a healthcare bill allowing such a move.
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That's a sign that they may be open to getting rid of Obamacare's pre-existing condition coverage, because they think they can take care of sick people through the risk pools.
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Officials don't know whether the child had a pre-existing condition or got sick during his journey from Guatemala, said Silvia Samines, vice consul at the Guatemalan Consulate in McAllen, Texas.
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It would technically protect pre-existing condition coverage, but it would allow states to get rid of the "community rating" provision that prevents insurers from charging higher rates to sick people.
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Before the Affordable Care Act, if you shopped for a plan on the individual market, companies often wouldn't sell a plan to someone who had a chronic or pre-existing condition.
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People on Medicare who now have a Medigap policy who may be unable to switch to a lower-premium policy sold by another company if they have a pre-existing condition.
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I am a wife, I am a mother, I was a caregiver [for] my mother end of life with a pre-existing condition, I'm a leader and I'm a problem-solver.
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The tweets elevated fears that Trump would treat the island differently, and that he views the territory's economic issues as a pre-existing condition that limits how much he can help.
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The group of people most vulnerable to the current threat of pre-existing condition exclusions is people who purchase individual Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace plans, approximately seven percent of Americans.
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Rohrabacher joins board of cannabis company MORE (R-Calif.), who is a toss-up race against Democrat Harley Rouda, recently released an ad focusing on his daughter's pre-existing condition — leukemia.
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The Republican attorneys general say they still believe the entire law should be invalidated, but if that does not happen, they would accept the elimination of the pre-existing condition protections.
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Everyone with a pre-existing condition would likely be scared, just as most Americans were worried that their rates were increasing when rates spiked in the relatively small non-group market.
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Because of a pre-existing condition, Kremer couldn't get health care and had to pay $1000 a month through COBRA to stay on his old plan and keep his family insured.
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In most states, if you had a pre-existing condition, you could either be denied coverage or forced to wait for months or years before treatment for the condition was covered.
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TrumpCare must offer its own benefits and Republicans must promote them, just as Democrats pointed out the pre-existing condition and age limit increase provisions of Obamacare over and over again.
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Many senators believe that the House made a critical error by allowing states to opt out of pre-existing condition protections and are determined not to touch that part of Obamacare.
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The amendment offered by Representative Tom MacArthur, Republican of New Jersey, prohibits denying coverage to people with a pre-existing condition, but, importantly, it does not shield against potentially higher costs.
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In the current American Health Care Act (AHCA) repeal proposal, which was passed by the House of Representatives last week, sexual assault could potentially be seen as a pre-existing condition.
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People were escorted out of the hearing with some sharing personal reasons for their protest, like one woman who was in a wheelchair and expressed concern over her pre-existing condition.
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Kevin Potter, from Ohio, whose young daughter is battling leukemia, asked Cassidy if he could guarantee that his family would not have to pay exorbitant premiums for her pre-existing condition.
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He has touted his votes for Trump's immigration proposal and nominees for key posts, while highlighting his efforts with Democrats to protect pre-existing condition coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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While Kimmel, whose infant son was born with a congenital heart defect, gave publicity to the pre-existing condition issue this week, GOP senators have mostly been quiet on the issue.
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The 98-year-old Duke of Edinburgh was pictured leaving the King Edward VII hospital in London on Christmas Eve, after spending four nights being treated for a pre-existing condition.
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"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition," said the spokesperson.
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Republicans say the lawsuit will not lead to an end in pre-existing condition protections because Congress would be forced to pass a new law to replace the ACA before that happened.
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After I aged off of my mom's insurance, insurance companies were able to legally deny me health coverage, because having been born with a disease meant I had a pre-existing condition.
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" Scott Serota, president and CEO of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: "The 'Consumer Freedom Option' is unworkable as it would undermine pre-existing condition protections, increase premiums and destabilize the market.
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The bill was loaded up with politically dangerous changes all along, and judging from all the damaging headlines about what might count as a pre-existing condition, now it has even more.
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Less precise estimates by other researchers and the Department of Health and Human Services show that up to half of all adults under age 65 have at least one pre-existing condition.
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The ACA's elimination of this pre-existing condition exclusion and recent breakthroughs in information technology created a robust marketplace for individual health insurance, making it a viable alternative to group health insurance.
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The question relates to a provision in the bill that would potentially allow insurers in some states to charge people with pre-existing condition higher premiums than they would charge healthier people.
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It can't be a pre-existing condition, but that that condition is interfering with your ability to go about your normal life and therefore you're entitled to some level of monetary compensation.
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"Many House members-elect have homed in on the issue of being denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, which worries more than four in 10 Americans," the Gallup analysis states.
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Some 52 million people, or 27% of non-elderly adults, have a pre-existing condition that would have prevented them from getting coverage prior to Obamacare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Who wants to go back to the not-so-distant past when people were denied health-care coverage, lost their coverage or had non-covered expenses because of a pre-existing condition?
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"Mary Robinson says UAE Princess Latifa is 'troubled,' suggesting a pre-existing condition though I'd be troubled too if I tried to escape a gilded prison and was kidnapped back," Roth said.
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Highlights: Schumer also condemned Trump's policies on immigration, including his zero tolerance policy, and called the president out for attempting to abolish the pre-existing condition clause in the Affordable Care Act.
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"Thanks to Donald Trump, pre-existing condition protections are on the chopping block this fall," Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, said in a statement on Monday shortly after the court's announcement.
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Just as effectively, for readers with a pre-existing condition of enthusiasm for western American history and literature, this book will refresh and revitalize interpretations that may be ready for some rattling.
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Philip, who is also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday as a precautionary measure for the treatment of an infection arising from a pre-existing condition.
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Republicans argue the availability of short-term plans as an option does not prevent people from still choosing a full ObamaCare plan with pre-existing condition protections if they want that option.
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Democrats have made the threat the case poses to pre-existing condition protections a major part of their argument in the midterm elections and against President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
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Philip, 98, whose official title is the Duke of Edinburgh, was only discharged from hospital on Tuesday where he was being treated for what Buckingham Palace described as a pre-existing condition.
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Insurers are barred from denying coverage to those with a pre-existing condition or from charging people more money based on their health history, and the Republican bill would not change this.
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"Before the ACA, 133 million Americans faced barriers to coverage because of a pre-existing condition like diabetes or pregnancy -- yes, pregnancy," California's Attorney General Becerra said in a statement on Wednesday.
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The KFF analysis estimated that at least 27 percent of adults under 65—more than 50 million Americans—had at least one pre-existing condition that would have jeopardized their coverage pre-ACA.
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"Considering that probably 99.9 percent of our clients either have a pre-existing condition, or are under the age of 26, I'd say that Obamacare is crucial to helping these people," Evan says.
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As the Price entered the building Heyman, armed with his smartphone as a recording device, asked him whether or not domestic violence would be deemed a pre-existing condition under the new legislation.
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Some of the testimonies on the Mail Me to the GOP website address having a pre-existing condition and how there's a chance they won't be able to afford medication under the AHCA.
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And our pre-existing condition — which from time to time has gone by other names (the Know-Nothings, the "American" Party, and yes, sometimes even the Democrats), never quite seems to go away.
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In that market, Americans who switch from one plan to another cannot be denied new coverage, be subjected to pre-existing-condition exclusions, or be charged higher premiums because of their health status.
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The ACA fixed the first problem—guaranteeing access to individual market coverage at a uniform price regardless of health status and without pre-existing condition exclusions—but in doing so exacerbated the second.
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We would have two risk pools: And, the unsubsidized cost for those who acquired a pre-existing condition and were forced to opt back into the Obamacare compliant market, would be simply astronomical.
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Moreover, in addition to all the people who could never get insurance, there were many who lost their insurance eligibility if they had a pre-existing condition, whether self-employed or changing jobs.
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The 25 million people in this country who are uninsured due to a pre-existing condition need a safety net that is comprised of more choices than just traditional insurance models — not fewer.
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It's $112 billion that the states can use to cover pre-existing condition patients, subsidize insurers, or just about anything else that they can claim cuts insurance costs for any of their residents.
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And yes, Tetralogy of Fallot would be considered a pre-existing condition to an insurance company, though after repair those children grow up to lead normal lives and even win Olympic gold medals.
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Senate Democrats on Wednesday plan to force a vote on a health-care measure in an effort to put Republicans on the record against pre-existing condition protections ahead of the midterm elections.
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"The 'Consumer Freedom Option' is unworkable as it would undermine pre-existing condition protections, increase premiums and destabilize the market," BlueCross BlueShield President Scott Serota wrote the senators in a letter released Wednesday.
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The difference for someone with a pre-existing condition like H.I.V. was staggering (in some cases more than $10,000 annually for H.I.V. medicines in one plan compared with less than $1,000 in another).
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"A pre-existing condition shouldn't be some kind of scarlet letter Americans have to wear around their neck as they try to get the quality, affordable health care everyone deserves," Ms. Underwood said.
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More on Grassley here Dem chairman schedules hearing on pre-existing conditions Mark your calendars: A Ways & Means hearing about pre-existing condition protections will take place next Tuesday, the committee announced today.
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Even a U.S. Senate candidate who signed on to the lawsuit challenging Obamacare — Missouri's Republican attorney general, Josh Hawley — has promised to protect pre-existing condition coverage as he pushes to repeal the law.
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Remember, there was some early stuff for the first few years, but the most important parts — the marketplaces, the pre-existing condition coverage, the subsidies, and the individual mandate — didn't kick in until 2014.
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Those diagnosed at a young age — common in many psychiatric disorders — could expect to spend the rest of their lives fearing they might be dropped from their plan due to a pre-existing condition.
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The announcement comes less than two weeks ahead of the midterm elections, where Republicans have been on the defensive on health care for their votes to repeal ObamaCare and weaken pre-existing condition protections.
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The announcement comes less than two weeks ahead of the midterm elections, where Republicans have been on the defensive on health care for their votes to repeal ObamaCare and weaken pre-existing condition protections.
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In August, Kaiser Family Foundation polling found a whopping 2628 percent of Americans saying it is "very important" that ObamaCare stops insurance companies from denying insurance coverage to people with a pre-existing condition.
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The Trump administration is currently arguing in court that ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down, and the Democratic leaders said their members "will not be diverted" away from discussing health care.
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The debate over pre-existing conditions centers on a provision that allows states to waive an ObamaCare rule that prevents people with pre-existing condition from being charged higher premiums due to an illness.
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Whether via institutionalization or sterilization or a lifetime spent bearing "pre-existing condition" about the neck, living as a disabled person in this country has historically meant living subject to a specific bureaucratic evil.
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Odds are high that a person will enter college with a pre-existing condition or develop one while they're a student, and those who seek help won't enjoy the privacy they'd expect off-campus.
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"Any Republican Senator who supports his nomination is supporting the Trump-Republican lawsuit to get rid of pre-existing condition protections and take away health coverage from millions of Americans," Schumer said on Friday.
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"Low-wage, hourly workers are already at greater risk of poor health because of their pre-existing condition of economic instability," said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health.
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"Low-wage, hourly workers are already at greater risk of poor health because of their pre-existing condition of economic instability," said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health.
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Under the Republican bill, we would never escape the "pre-existing condition" label, and there would be the added worry about having asked our donor to subject himself to the whims of insurance companies.
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About 54 million people had a pre-existing condition in 2018 that would have led them to be denied coverage prior to Obamacare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan research group.
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Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition.
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The Affordable Care Act kicking in has also made a big difference in getting more people into recovery, because under the law, addiction is no longer considered a pre-existing condition for insurance purposes.
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"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition," the palace said in a statement.
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As a result, women would be subjected to particularly bizarre and cruel obstacles in accessing health care—before Obamacare, rape was considered a pre-existing condition, as were C-sections, domestic abuse, and pregnancy.
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Issa told a Stage 3 breast cancer survivor concerned about being targeted for her pre-existing condition that she wouldn't be charged more under the bill as long as she keeps her continuous coverage.
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Far from delighting anyone, it will (at last count) throw at least 23 million people off the health care rolls and leave anyone with a pre-existing condition as untouchable as a Tatooine moisture farmer.
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How it works: Before the ACA, the federal privacy law known as HIPAA prevented employer-based insurance plans from denying employees coverage because of a pre-existing condition or charging those employee a higher premium.
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The Justice Department says three provisions need to fall: the individual mandate, the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing conditions, and the ban on charging higher premiums because of a pre-existing condition.
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Although we can't save you from the pre-existing condition of being a woman or being physically crushed by student debt, activist Jessica Jin has come up with the next best thing: Haunt My Rep.
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When the National Women's Law Center launched a campaign to support its study called "Being a Woman is not a Pre-Existing Condition" in 2009, Borchelt said, it came across a story about Chris Turner.
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And yes, count President Donald Trump among the scared as he has been tweeting and pre-emptively promising to keep all the pre-existing condition Americans covered under whatever Obamacare replacement bill he would sign.
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The bill's $23 million in funding for such people would cover just 5 percent of the 2.2 million current enrollees in the individual insurance market with some type of pre-existing condition, the analysis found.
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While Cuba did not doubt some diplomats had fallen ill, so far there was nothing to suggest this had not been due to a pre-existing condition, natural causes or even psychological suggestion, he said.
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We are fighting for the safe and welcoming public schools that kids deserve, healthcare protections so people aren't one pre-existing condition away from bankruptcy, affordable college without life-burdening student debt, and decent wages.
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The muted response illustrates how the politics of the 2010 health law have shifted, with Democrats successfully hammering Republicans during the 2018 midterms over GOP efforts to weaken the law's pre-existing condition protections. Sen.
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The problem is that these special insurance plans are not subject to the same ObamaCare rules and pre-existing condition protections, which could suck the healthy enrollees out of ObamaCare plans and damage the market.
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Legal experts in both parties do not expect the lawsuit to ultimately succeed, but the issue is handing Democrats a weapon and putting some Republicans in a tough position over popular pre-existing condition protections.
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After all, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rogers (Wash.), the mother of a child with Down syndrome, backed the American Health Care Act last week precisely because her son has a pre-existing condition.
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On the flip side, your state could choose to keep it, but significantly raise prices if you have a pre-existing condition since the bill encourages them to apply for waivers to do exactly that.
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Congressional Democrats have been attacking Republicans for the Trump administration's filing in court earlier this month calling for ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections to be overturned, seeking to leverage the issue for the midterm elections.
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The bipartisan governors group that has teamed up on health care in the past is back, this time calling for the Trump administration to reverse course on arguing against pre-existing condition protections in court.
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We had a sneak peak of what this type of legislation could look like when Republicans passed a proposal last year to preserve pre-existing condition protections while removing the rest of the ACA's financing.
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But a ruling that upheld his decision in full, or even one that said the mandate and pre-existing condition protections had to go, would send shock waves through the health care and political systems.
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More important, the bill does not specify what a pre-existing condition is, nor does it allow insurers to deny coverage outright, although potentially they could set premiums beyond the reach of some sick consumers.
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" As for the 2017 report, he said, "The overwhelming majority of the incidents were attributed to animals not being acclimated to its crate or the animal having a pre-existing condition we weren't aware of.
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The weakening of the pre-existing condition protections, and the reliance on usually problematic high-risk pools, would be most detrimental to people with those conditions who are not in the higher ranks of income.
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"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition," a palace spokesperson said in a statement.
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Imagine if Trump and the Republicans were to include a provision that would allow any person with a pre-existing condition to enroll in Medicaid for a premium based on an income determined sliding scale?
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To neutralize the attacks, Mr. Faso has enlisted his wife to narrate one of his closing ads, about her own cancer diagnosis, to make the point of her husband's support for pre-existing condition coverage.
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But here's the problem: While Obamacare has barred health insurers from denying coverage to anyone with a pre-existing condition, that still rising cost of covering them has become the biggest threat to the entire ACA.
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She feared that if she did go in, she'd given the label of having a pre-existing condition, and would have trouble getting insurance at her new job, so she waited to get it checked out.
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Outside the 4 states, people on Medicare have a limited window of opportunity to buy a Medigap policy, and if they miss the window, they may be denied a policy due to a pre-existing condition.
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Out of the gate, the two-pronged attack against Kavanaugh was that he would overturn the right to an abortion and dismantle the Affordable Care Act and the pre-existing condition protections that come with it.
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"It is preposterous that the Trump administration claims to care about preserving pre-existing condition protections for millions of Americans while simultaneously peddling shoddy, substandard junk plans that undermine and weaken those very protections," Schumer said.
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If Trump and GOP leaders had agreed to wipe out the pre-existing condition coverage, they would have lost one of their main pitches for the Republican plan: Don't worry, sick people will still be covered.
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The fight to save Obamacare was personal for her: Not only had she worked on implementing the legislation, but she also has a heart condition known as supraventricular tachycardia, which qualifies as a pre-existing condition.
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Kimmel also praised Obamacare and noted that, prior to it, those born with congenital heart issues like his son could be turned down for health insurance because they were deemed as having a pre-existing condition.
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Kimmel defended Obamacare, explaining that children born with congenital heart issues such as his son's could be turned down for health insurance before the law's passage because they were deemed as having a pre-existing condition.
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Just days after leaving the hospital where he was treated for an infection stemming from a "pre-existing condition" for two nights, the 96-year-old royal was spotted driving with his wife, Queen Elizabeth, 91.
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Given the fact that a pre-existing condition can include anything from depression to high blood pressure to simply being a woman (I'm a "yes" to all three) I'm potentially looking at sky-high insurance rates.
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The fight over pre-existing condition protections has become one of the central messages for Democrats leading up to the November midterm elections, where they hope to win back control of the House and the Senate.
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Don Beyer (D-Va.), 45 House Democrats wrote to President Trump, as well as the 18 state attorneys general and two governors leading a lawsuit that seeks to overturn ObamaCare and its pre-existing condition protections.
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Reaction to Cruz's comment: One Senate GOP aide told Caitlin that many of the Republican senators were "surprised and pissed" because most Republican senators had already agreed not to touch the ACA's pre-existing condition protections.
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"The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London last night, as a precautionary measure, for treatment of an infection arising from a pre-existing condition," a spokesman for the Palace said.
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Another insurer, National General, says in a brochure that its short-term medical plans may not cover outpatient prescription drugs, normal pregnancy or childbirth, routine well-baby care or costs resulting from a pre-existing condition.
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Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said the Trump administration has "affirmatively argued to overturn" the ACA's pre-existing condition protections in the lawsuit that's making its way through the courts.
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Before the Affordable Care Act, profit-taking insurers had lowered the bar for what was considered a pre-existing condition to include nearly every malady, making it difficult for many healthy patients to get affordable insurance.
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About 270 percent of people under 2275 are thought to have some sort of pre-existing condition that will most likely leave them without individual insurance if the law is repealed, according to a recent study.
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"Four in 573 Americans (41%) say they are 'very worried' that they or a family member will lose coverage if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA's pre-existing condition protections," Kaiser said in releasing the poll.
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On May 9, reporter Dan Heyman was arrested after he tried to ask Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price whether domestic violence would be considered a pre-existing condition under the American Health Care Act.
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He said the issue is very personal to him, since he has a younger brother who was born 240 weeks premature and has a pre-existing condition that could be lost without protections under so-called Obamacare.
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GOP lawmakers have acknowledged concerns about messing with some of the law's most popular provisions, such as the pre-existing condition provision and the ability for parents to keep children on their plans until they are 26.
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Without the ACA, Zoe and her family faced a harrowing future: not only using up all her lifetime health coverage before preschool, but carrying the burden of a pre-existing condition for the rest of her life.
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"You know, before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease, like my son was, there's a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance, because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel said.
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There have been a number of approaches to incentives, including: The uninsured get an open enrollment period, and if they do not sign up for insurance, they face pre-existing condition exclusions and higher prices for insurance.
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Years from now, when voter rights are firmly intact and when having ovaries isn't deemed a pre-existing condition, we'll look back on this era and remember the man who helped us laugh through it: Alec Baldwin.
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The bill in its current form also allows states to seek federal waivers to ignore certain mandates in the Affordable Care Act — including the one that prevents insurance from charging you more for a pre-existing condition.
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The Washington Post reports that Heyman "followed alongside" Price to ask him if domestic violence would be a pre-existing condition under the AHCA: "This is my job, this is what I'm supposed to do," Heyman said.
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He defended the administration's push for short-term insurance plans, but largely dodged questions about pre-existing condition protections and the future of ObamaCare in the wake of a federal judge in Texas striking down the law.
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Both abortion rights and ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections are taking center stage, but Democrats are putting a particular emphasis on the latter, an issue that unites their party more and could have broader appeal than abortion.
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McCaskill, though, asked Verma why the administration was supporting the lawsuit in the first place and questioned whether Verma weighed in with the Department of Justice to try to stop the argument against pre-existing condition protections.
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"Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you would never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel said.
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" Diaz-Balart said he decided to remain in Washington on Saturday because he was concerned about being in his South Florida home, where his wife, who has a pre-existing condition, would be "at exceptionally high risk.
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What matters is that, as Republicans present another plan consisting of block grants and pre-existing condition waivers, Democrats have begun to put forward a singular, comprehensive approach to health care – even if it has to wait.
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LONDON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth was taken to hospital on Friday as a precautionary measure for treatment for a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
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Alexander downplayed the notion that he wants to undo ObamaCare's basic protections, including the requirements that nobody can be charged more if they have a pre-existing condition, and that everyone is guaranteed to be sold insurance.
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Without consulting your doctor, there's also no way of knowing what reaction you will have or what kind of interaction could occur because of another drug you might be taking or a pre-existing condition you may have.
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"The notion of having access to care with a pre-existing condition without going bankrupt or dying became a lot less abstract for us," Tucker said in a recent campaign ad using his history to highlight health care.
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They insist that by creating high risk pools in states -- and using several billion dollars allocated to them to defray costs for patients -- they can ensure that no one with a pre-existing condition is left without coverage.
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"Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there's a good chance you would never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel said in May.
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It is a reasonable requirement to ensure that health care can continue to be enabled through a system of mostly private insurers, while allowing for provisions that no one can be denied care for a pre-existing condition.
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"I did universal healthcare when I was mayor — fully implemented, regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay, and regardless of your immigration status," Newsom told the podcast Pod Save America, referencing his stint as San Francisco's mayor.
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They are seeking documents such as any analysis the administration performed on the effects of eliminating pre-existing condition protections, as well as answers to how the administration plans to handle the upheaval from striking down those provisions.
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, an estimated 27 percent of U.S. adults ages 85033-64 have some kind of pre-existing condition that could have led to a denial of coverage before the ACA went into effect.
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The move by the Justice Department is likely to increase pressure on GOP lawmakers to say if they support the tactics of the administration, which had already called for the pre-existing condition protections to be struck down.
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This means that many individuals could still face higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs and, even if enrollees paid the increased premiums for many months, they could still be denied benefits because of a pre-existing condition.
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"I did universal healthcare when I was mayor -- fully implemented, regardless of pre-existing condition, ability to pay, and regardless of your immigration status," Newsom told the podcast Pod Save America, referencing his stint as San Francisco's mayor.
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For example, he calls for eliminating the federal essential health benefits, which require insurers to cover a range of health services and help prevent insurers from simply excluding coverage for a pre-existing condition from someone's insurance plan.
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Upton, who was a healthcare leader for Republicans as a committee chairman, noted in a radio interview with WHTC that the conservative Freedom Caucus insisted on the new amendment, which he blames for weakening pre-existing condition protections.
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Kimmel discussed his newborn son's open-heart surgery during his Monday monologue on ABC, saying that before ObamaCare his son would have been denied insurance later in life on the grounds that he has a pre-existing condition.
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"You know, before 2014, if you were born with a congenital heart disease, like my son was, there's a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance, because you had a pre-existing condition," he said.
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I owe a deep debt of gratitude to those leaders who were willing to coach me on everything from funding bans discriminating against low income women and women of color to how I was a pre-existing condition.
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The act made it illegal for health insurance companies to refuse coverage to patients with pre-existing conditions, and before it took effect, many carriers denied insurance to transgender people, citing "gender dysphoria" as a pre-existing condition.
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"It is my understanding that the medical evidence will show that Mr. Ward had a serious pre-existing condition and had methamphetamine in his system – most significantly, there were no indications of trauma to his neck," Stern said.
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The Affordable Care Act significantly expanded insurance for people living with HIV — its ban on pre-existing condition exclusions and increased premiums based on a person's health secured reliable coverage for people living with HIV for the first time.
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Before Obamacare, insurance companies could consider these two things a "pre-existing condition" because of the cost of medical treatments related to them (think rape kits, medication for sexual transmitted infections, mental health treatment, among other types of help).
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About whether mothers and fathers can afford health care for their families, about whether workers won't be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition, and about whether senior citizens will be able to afford their prescription medicines.
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Many lawmakers faced contentious town halls this month where constituents pressed them to preserve pre-existing condition protections, which could make it harder for centrists with one eye on next year's midterms to go along with the new bill.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) first announced Monday that it was siding with a district court ruling that found the whole Affordable Care Act unconstitutional after previously arguing only the law's pre-existing condition protections should be struck down.
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The problem is the last version of the GOP replacement bill didn't set aside enough money and worse, it really didn't do anything to make sure the states would use that money only for pre-existing condition risk pools.
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It certainly doesn't scare the average guy who's got a job that he doesn't like and is afraid to quit it because he's got a pre-existing condition and he may well not get another good job with insurance.
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When trying to make the case that it's terribly unfair, and in my mind, inhumane to make sexual assault history a pre-existing condition, let's look at one example of sexual assault survivors — those who experienced child sexual abuse.
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The following were among those discussed in a short book, "The Pre-existing Condition," which I co-authored and co-edited in 85033: — States can establish high-risk pools where those with expensive conditions can obtain state-subsidized insurance.
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LONDON — Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, was taken to a hospital in London on Friday as a precautionary measure to treat a pre-existing condition, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.
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Although the Republicans' proposed American Health Care Act would preserve Obamacare's pre-existing condition provision, Campoverdi says she is worried about access to preventative services that women need to thwart diseases like the one that runs in her family.
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And it's ridiculous to me that they want to take us back to a day when being a woman is considered a pre-existing condition, or that our healthcare costs are more expensive than a man's, just because we're women.
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At the time, he said, the small company where his mother worked didn't provide health coverage, while his dad was unemployed at the time, in addition to having had back surgery that would have been considered a pre-existing condition.
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Most Americans are worried about the effects of a lawsuit that could gut the Affordable Care Act's protections for pre-existing conditions — probably because most people have a family member with a pre-existing condition, according to an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.
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"You know, before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there's a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," he said on the show.
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Many people are also reluctant to use insurance for mental health care, because they are worried about employers finding out or what might happen to their future coverage if they get a diagnosis that is considered a pre-existing condition.
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And with the passage of the American Health Care Act, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's signature piece of legislation that categorizes rape as a pre-existing condition, Republicans across the nation sank to new depths of virulently anti-woman rhetoric.
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Heyman wanted to know if, under the health care law championed by Secretary Price, being a victim of domestic violence would count as a pre-existing condition that might not be covered by the administration's slimmed-down version of insurance.
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If they quit their jobs or were fired, they could lose those benefits, and if they had a pre-existing condition, they could have a hard time getting them back, even if they got a new job with good benefits elsewhere.
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"These days, because of the Affordable Care Act, anybody can get health insurance and it doesn't matter if you have anything wrong with you, because insurance companies have to take you even if you have a pre-existing condition," Obama replied.
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What we didn't expect was that Mr. Kimmel would round out the story of his family's healthcare experience by sending a strong message that Billy's pre-existing condition might not be covered by proposed legislation making its way through Congress.
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" Clinton also continued her attacks on pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, saying Republicans want "to turn our healthcare system back to the insurance companies, so if you have a pre-existing condition it will be hard for you to afford care.
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Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE, what are you waiting for?
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As a result, healthy people "pay it forward" — they pay more than their current expected costs of care in return for a guarantee of coverage that doesn't penalize them for a pre-existing condition when they need it in the future.
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As someone who was denied health insurance in my early 20s due to my "pre-existing condition" of Celiac Disease, I fully understand the fear of returning to a time when those who need health insurance the most cannot get it.
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In the longer run, insurers may become even more reluctant to participate in the non-group market, and that may ultimately spell the end of the pre-existing condition protections — leading to ballooning premiums that will crush millions of families.
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Vulnerable Republicans across the country have been scrambling to say that they support pre-existing condition protections to try to fend off a potent Democratic attack, but Schumer and other Democrats argued Monday that the new rules undermined those claims.
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And its callous dismissal of women's sexual health and reproductive rights makes female anatomy itself a pre-existing condition, a platform that seems accurately reflected in the fact that just one female senator was -- retroactively -- invited to help write it.
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In March 264, the Affordable Care Act passed, and today 29 million more Americans are insured, no child or adult can be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, and women are not charged more just because of their gender.
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"An individual with a pre-existing condition could be insured, but the services needed to treat that condition might not be covered because of a waiver," said Timothy S. Jost, an emeritus professor of health law at Washington and Lee University.
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Five states — Idaho, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont and Wyoming — do not bar insurers from considering domestic violence a declinable pre-existing condition, said Gretchen Borchelt, the vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women's Law Center.
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After that time, you can be rejected or charged more, unless you live in one of four states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and New York) that provide some level of guarantee to enroll at a later time with pre-existing condition protection.
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Hospital officials told Conarck that Azcue would only need to foot $1,400 of the bill, but Azcue said he has to provide his insurer with three years of medical records proving the flu didn't relate to a pre-existing condition.
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Philip, 98, whose title is the Duke of Edinburgh, left a London hospital just in time for Christmas after treatment for what Buckingham Palace described as a pre-existing condition.. The queen attended both services, Sky News and other media reported.
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After the election, one patient's mother expressed concerns to me about her son's ability to get health insurance in the future, if Obamacare were abolished, given that the injury that brought him into my care would be considered a pre-existing condition.
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If you have a pre-existing condition -- asthma, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, any of those things -- you could be kept off of insurance if you had to make a move or a transition or were unemployed for a portion of time.
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Caitlin Owens has a good rundown of the pieces of the Obamacare regulatory system that would be left in place: pre-existing condition coverage, young adult coverage, no lifetime or annual limits, essential health benefits, and limits on out-of-pocket costs.
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On Tuesday, as Price and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway walked through the hallway of the state capitol to meet with local lawmakers, reporter Dan Heyman asked Price whether domestic violence would be labeled a pre-existing condition under the American Health Care Act.
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" Benjamin Wakana, who until January had been spokesman for Price's predecessor as HHS secretary, Sylvia Burwell, told CNBC on Wednesday, "If I supported a bill that destroyed protections for people with pre-existing condition, I probably wouldn't want to answer questions either.
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"You know, before 2014 [when Obamacare came into force], if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you wouldn't be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," he said.
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For Americans with disabilities, the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature healthcare reform law, has been a literal lifeline, enabling them to access private health insurance that had previously been denied under the dreaded pre-existing condition exception and expanding coverage under Medicaid.
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Vulnerable Republicans across the country have been scrambling to say that they support pre-existing condition protections to try to fend off a potent line of Democratic attack, but Schumer and other Democrats argued Monday that the new rules undermined those claims.
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" Clinton also stepped up her attacks on pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, saying Republicans want "to turn our healthcare system back to the insurance companies, so if you have a pre-existing condition it will be hard for you to afford care.
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Revenues from the sales of those kinds of plans, plus the fiscal quarantining of pre-existing condition patients via robust risk pools are much more likely to produce the less mean result of lower overall premium costs for everyone else at any age.
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"Today's decision is an unfortunate step backward for our health system that is contrary to overwhelming public sentiment to preserve pre-existing condition protections and other policies that have extended health insurance coverage to millions of Americans," she said in a statement.
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"What the voters are concerned about is that my opponent is someone who stood alongside the president and his administration on gutting pre-existing condition protections, on essential benefit protections, and the tax bill," Mr. Kim said at a recent candidate forum.
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And earlier in season 15 before Meredith's own instance of insurance fraud, Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) intentionally injured a patient with a pre-existing condition so the patient could make a claim for emergency surgery that his insurance company would have to approve.
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They've repeatedly tried to defund Planned Parenthood, reduced women's access to family planning under Title X, and worked to dismantle consumer protections under the Affordable Care Act, including protections that ensure that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition.
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"He's trying to overturn the law of the land so he can take Idaho back to the old days when insurance companies could deny care, cap coverage and charge people more just for being older or having a pre-existing condition," it continues.
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The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has mandated that insurers in the health insurance marketplace cover treatment for anyone with such pre-existing medical conditions, which put an end to health plans limiting or denying benefits to children due to a pre-existing condition.
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Most insurance companies cover "CPAP," but in at least one of the plans set forth by US lawmakers in recent months to replace the Affordable Care Act, sleep apnea was listed as a "pre-existing condition" that could potentially lead insurers to raise premiums.
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But since I've finally made some progress, and since it's not covered by my insurance (pre-existing condition FTW!), my husband and I recently decided it would be best to decrease from one appointment per week to one every two weeks to save money.
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Trump suggested on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday he might keep two pillars of President Barack Obama's signature health-care law — the prohibition on denials for pre-existing condition and the inclusion of coverage for children in their mid-20s under their parents' insurance.
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Under the AHCA, being transgender could be considered a pre-existing condition, as there are no stipulations in the bill that protect trans people from insurance companies discriminating against them—under Obamacare, trans people were explicitly protected under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.
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" He added that before the ACA mandated coverage for pre-existing conditions, "if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you would never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition.
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Deeper dive: The draft Senate bill would let states escape some of the ACA's "Title I" insurance regulations, like minimum benefit requirements — but not the pre-existing condition protections, like requiring insurers to cover sick people and preventing them from charging those consumers higher rates.
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" Contrast these comments with what Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa told his constituents around the same time: that an amendment proposed by Senator Ted Cruz meant to consolidate conservative support for Trumpcare is "subterfuge" that has the effect of "annihilating the pre-existing condition requirement.
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Protections for people with pre-existing conditions and letting young people stay on their parents' plans until age 26 are also areas Republicans commonly say they want to keep, though how to go about offering pre-existing condition protections is an open question. Sen.
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Manchin, facing a tough reelection race this year against West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R), is pointing to a new Senate GOP bill that aims to preserve ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections as a rebuke to Morrisey's position in court against those provisions.
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The problem: Without a mandate for everyone to buy health insurance, the popular pre-existing condition provision could send insurance companies into a tailspin, because their costs would rise with sicker customers, and that would not be offset by healthy consumers forced to buy insurance.
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"Insurance companies today are interpreting their short-term health insurance policies so as to label any condition that arises during the policy term as a pre-existing condition for which the company can exclude coverage," said a lawyer representing Ms. Jones in a statement.
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The dad could never move to another job from that employer to work on his own, in a profession which would have been much more lucrative, because they would never have been able to get any insurance to cover their child — pre-existing condition.
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The Republicans were given a gift by Trump's campaign, a grace they did not merit: the gift of freedom from the trap of dogma, from the pre-existing condition of zombie Reaganism, from an agenda out of touch with the concerns of their actual constituents.
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" She highlighted the birth of her eighth grandchild and also talked about her husband, 98-year-old Prince Phillip, who earlier this week was released from the hospital where he spent four days for "observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition.
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Mr. Biden won applause as he recalled the gains for women in the Affordable Care Act, noting that "pregnancy can't be a pre-existing condition" any longer, but he stumbled over the statistics as he sought to highlight South Carolina's high rate of maternal mortality.
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Before the Affordable Care Act mandated coverage for pre-existing conditions,"if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you would never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel added.
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No member of Congress worried about their chances of winning next November is going to take a rushed vote on a health care bill they have barely even seen but that fiddles with the pre-existing condition clause -- or any of the other popular elements of Obamacare.
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"Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition," Kimmel continued, referring to 2014 when Obamacare health insurance plans began taking effect.
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The wildcard is a new provision that would allow states to opt out of Obamacare's requirements that insurance plans carry a minimum package of benefits as well as its rule that insurers charge customers the same price regardless of whether they have a pre-existing condition.
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Second, instead of keeping Obamacare's huge Medicaid expansion that has almost doubled the number of Americans on the program since 2007, the Trump team could find a way to get more pre-existing condition patients on Medicaid by exempting them from some of the maximum income rules.
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Americans like being able to buy insurance even if they have a pre-existing condition; they do not want insurance companies to increase premiums when they get sick; and they want insurance to cover essential health services like ambulance rides, substance abuse treatment and mental health counseling.
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Mr. Trump's Justice Department has chosen not to defend the suit and to let the A.C.A. benefits die, including the guarantee of insurance even if you have a pre-existing condition — despite President Trump and Republican candidates across the country swearing to defend them only weeks ago.
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"If somebody had a pre-existing condition or had been taking prescription drugs or illicit drugs, it is exponentially difficult to pull apart all of the substances and compounds they had been exposed to and determine what is actually responsible for that person's death," he said.
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And although the new legislation would not include a return to the pre-Obamacare days when companies could refuse to sell a policy if a person had a pre-existing condition, an insurance company could charge that person 30% more if they have a two-month gap in coverage.
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Normally such a ruling would bring charges of judicial overreach for overruling Congress — after all, Judge Reed O'Connor's ruling, if it stands, would toss out measures like Medicaid expansion, pre-existing condition protections, and allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance plans until the age of 26.
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EDT: Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE meets with President Obama in the Oval Office.
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HHS Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE heads back to Capitol Hill for a Senate Appropriations committee hearing.
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Republicans have pushed back on those attacks by arguing the provision was narrower than it's being portrayed, and that people could be charged more for a pre-existing condition only if their state chose to get a waiver and if they were uninsured for more than 63 days.
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The White House's weeklong focus on system-wide reforms -- rather than the record low uninsured rate or popular provisions like banning insurance providers from denying coverage based on a pre-existing condition -- reflects their growing confidence the law will stay on the books after President Obama leaves office.
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"Most of the freshmen who helped take back the House got elected on: 'We're going to protect your health insurance even if you have a pre-existing condition,' not 'We're going to take this whole system and throw it out the window,'" said Kenneth Baer, a Democratic strategist.
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While Republicans have a significant disability policy record of their own (the ADA itself was signed by George H.W. Bush), their party's strenuous efforts to repeal the ACA and its ban on pre-existing-condition discrimination makes it difficult for them to reach out to the disability vote.
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Their causes of death have yet to be determined, but preliminary autopsy reports showed the couple's bodies had internal bleeding and fluid in their lungs (pulmonary edema); Day had fluid in her brain; and Holmes had signs of a pre-existing condition (an enlarged heart and cirrhosis of the liver).
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The Senate changes it drastically: Senate Republicans have already expressed concern with the end of Medicaid expansion by 2020 -- which is in the House bill -- and it's hard for me to imagine some of the more moderate elements in the chamber will be happy about the pre-existing condition provisions.
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Because I believe it is a reasonable compromise which curtails the worst abuses of the for-profit system, such as pre-existing condition exclusions and lifetime maximums, while encouraging people to take responsibility for addressing their own healthcare costs and stop passing costs off to everyone else through medical bankruptcy.
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"I'm writing to make clear my view on how the 'Consumer Freedom Option' is unworkable as it would undermine pre-existing condition protections, increase premiums and destabilize the market," Scott Serota, CEO of Association of Independent Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans, wrote to Senators Cruz and Lee earlier this week.
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"The Democrats cite concerns over several troubling reports of STLDI (short-term, limited duration insurance) plans denying coverage entirely, charging more based on age, gender or health state, or refusing to cover consumers for care that may stem from what the company deems a pre-existing condition," the panel said.
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"I'm a cancer survivor, and I'm really lucky because I had access to excellent health insurance, even with a pre-existing condition, and that's the way it should be for absolutely everybody — and it's not," adds Louis-Dreyfus, who revealed last September that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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"The DOH will perform a comprehensive analysis to determine if a positive test result relates to a pre-existing condition that may or may not have been previously reported or diagnosed; or if further analysis of potential exposure sources, including HealthPlus, is indicated," Manigan said in a statement to CNN.
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The White House's weeklong focus on system-wide reforms — rather than the record low uninsured rate or popular provisions like banning insurance providers from denying coverage based on a pre-existing condition — reflects growing confidence in the administration that the law will stay on the books after Obama leaves office.
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"You know, the most sincere anger I've noticed comes from people that are sincerely scared, people that may have a pre-existing condition that feel like they're about to lose it and they're going to die, and they're going to die because of a vote that we might be taking," Rooney said.
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" McHenry, asked if his defense of the pre-existing condition protections was an acknowledgement that ObamaCare had done some good, said: "It is an awful bill on the main, but there are a few little kernels here that have had a good impact for eliminating the worst practices within the insurance marketplace.
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He believes in defending the integrity of individual statutes of a law, which in this case means he is likely to look at the language of the pre-existing condition statute — if the Texas case ever reached the Supreme Court — and decide that its integrity is not reliant on the individual mandate.
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The expert who alerted Vox's Sarah Kliff to the exemption, Timothy Jost of Washington and Lee University, points out that that means Congress and staff could find themselves with plans that include the essential health benefits (which the exemption requires) and yet also potentially denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition.
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The Affordable Care Act's protections are personal for Underwood because she herself has a pre-existing condition: When she was in elementary school, she was diagnosed with a heart condition known as supraventricular tachycardia, a type of heart rhythm problem that causes occasional episodes of abnormal heart beat, after passing out during a swimming lesson.
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The bottom line: That would give Republicans a better idea of the impact of his proposal, which would let insurers sell health plans that don't meet Affordable Care Act standards — including, potentially, waiving the pre-existing condition rules — as long as they also sell plans that comply with all of the ACA insurance regulations.
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"This disastrous legislation once again makes being a woman a pre-existing condition; 'defunds' Planned Parenthood; guts maternity coverage; strips 24 million of their health insurance; lets insurance companies charge people with pre-existing conditions exorbitant rates; forces new moms back to work shortly after giving birth; and reduces access to contraception," she said.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE is traveling to Texas and Florida, and marketplace CEO Kevin Counihan to Oklahoma.
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Sen. Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D-Mo.) pressed a top Trump administration official on Tuesday about a lawsuit challenging ObamaCare's pre-existing condition protections.
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That means even within a single state, different locations would see different results under legislation that erodes the Affordable Care Act's protections Why it matters: The more people who have a pre-existing condition, the more likely health care is to resonate as an issue in the midterm elections in that state or district.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE and Republicans are trying to make their closing arguments ahead of the midterms, insisting they support pre-existing condition protections.
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Top Democrats told CNN Tuesday evening that they view the focus on health care -- specifically the GOP-led lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act and gut pre-existing condition protections -- as more for salient in the eyes of voters, even as the GOP is campaigning heavily on the Kavanaugh fight to energize its base.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE is warning that administration funds to fight the Zika virus are quickly running out.
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In a sign of how unpredictable this presidency is going to be, while none of Trump's policy statements discuss preserving the pre-existing condition protections of the ACA, or the ability of parents to keep their children on their plans until age 26, Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Friday that he's now supportive of keeping these provisions.
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And, if you were worried about health care, you should be pleased to know that President-elect Trump and countless other Republicans agree with some of the core issues of Obamacare, which include protecting pre-existing condition clauses as well as continuing to allow kids to be included in their parents health insurance up to 26 years old.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D), said in the ad released Monday that his oldest son has a rare chronic disease — a pre-existing condition, he notes.
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Roskam joins lobbying firm Blue states angry over SALT cap should give fiscal sobriety a try Illinois Dems offer bill to raise SALT deduction cap MORE (R-Ill.), in the quintessential suburban district being targeted by Democrats, shows a sick child as a voiceover cites Roskam's repeated votes to nix ObamaCare and its pre-existing condition protections.
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But "it would be right to ask how much any of these improvements really matter if you are interested in protecting the rights of women and girls to get health care, are concerned about junk policies eroding pre-existing condition protections, or barriers being put up to prevent people from accessing Medicaid if they lose their jobs," Slavitt added.
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But not until Mr. Trump's racist rhetoric shone a light on anti-Latino sentiment did we feel the need to make our voices heard on the issues that matter to us: from proper funding for our schools, better infrastructure in our communities and financial aid, to health care that doesn't consider poverty a pre-existing condition.
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Much of the more than three hours of arguments centered on language in the Affordable Care Act that describes the individual mandate as "essential to creating effective health insurance markets" — language that the plaintiffs said made clear that the rest of the law, or at least the pre-existing condition protections, could not function without it.
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Roz RessnerClarksburg, N.J. To the Editor: Here is a suggestion for any undecided voter in the approaching midterm elections: If you believe that a person with a pre-existing condition like epilepsy deserves the same access to affordable health insurance as anyone else, then you should vote for the party that is committed to health care for everyone.
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A minor pre-existing condition — she was taking Lexapro, a common medicine for depression — meant that her only insurance option was to be funneled into the "high-risk pool" (a type of costly insurance option that was essentially rendered obsolete by the Affordable Care Act and now figures in some of the G.O.P. plans to replace it).
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"We are continuing to try and pursue every administrative option," Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE said during a congressional hearing earlier this month.
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Rottinghaus said it could be hard for voters to believe that Cruz all of a sudden wants to maintain pre-existing condition protections, but he said Cruz is responding to a shifting political landscape where Democrats now sense they have the advantage on the issue and are hammering Republicans across the country for their previous votes to repeal the protections.
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The White House said that Obama dropped by a meeting of several health insurance company CEOs, as well as Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE and advisor Valerie Jarrett.
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BURWELL ADMITS ABORTION LAW INQUIRY TOO SLOW HHS Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE acknowledged Wednesday that the administration has not moved fast enough in investigating an alleged violation of abortion law.
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It's also about the more than 150 million Americans with insurance through their workplaces, who under the ACA cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions, who are now protected from lifetime limits on care, whose children can now stay on their policies until age 26, and who cannot be charged more because of their gender -- because being a woman is no-longer a pre-existing condition.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE said Wednesday that her department is considering issuing guidelines on an executive action known as "march-in rights" as a way to fight high drug prices.
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Shoppers are demanding Instacart provide personal protective equipment at no cost to workers and hazard pay of $5 extra per order, change the default tip to 10%, extend the sick pay policy to those who have a doctor's note for a pre-existing condition that may make them more susceptible to contracting the virus and extend the deadline to qualify for those benefits beyond April 8th.
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"Nationwide demand for health coverage is higher than ever, as Americans prove again that Marketplace coverage is vital to them and their families," HHS Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE said in a statement.
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He has been bullish that the Senate's bill must protect those with pre-existing conditions, which he dubbed the "Jimmy Kimmel test," a reference to an opening monologue late-night host Jimmy Kimmel delivered in which he revealed his newborn son had a heart defect that, without ObamaCare, could be considered a pre-existing condition that would prevent him from purchasing affordable insurance later in life.
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HHS Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE made that determination months ago, and the FDA has issued ten EUAs for tests to diagnose active or past Zika infections and could do so for other regulated products as well.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE and other top health officials came to Capitol Hill to brief top senators in both parties on Zika and make the case for $28500 billion in emergency funding.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE and other top health officials came to Capitol Hill to brief top senators in both parties on Zika and make the case for $85033 billion in emergency funding.
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Despite that, President Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE have pushed for price controls on Medicare Part D despite insistence from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that price controls wouldn't result in any savings.
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However, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE, recently announced plans that would give the agency the authority to negotiate the prices of medicines — a proposal that would have disastrous results if implemented.
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Such a rewriting is theoretically possible: All you need to do is spend substantially more money on insurance subsidies than the House bill does, offer substantially more money to states for high-risk pools if they want to opt out of the pre-existing condition rules, and generally make the bill look less like a self-parodic exercise in cutting Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the rich.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE said Thursday that the ObamaCare marketplaces, which have been troubled by exiting insurers, can be made sustainable even if Congress does not act to make fixes to the healthcare law.
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE announced Thursday that she is using her authority to transfer funds from other areas in her department to prevent a delay in the research into a vaccine for the Zika virus.
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Kimmel used the opportunity to thank all the nurses who helped him, and then brought up an important point about healthcare: "Until a few years ago, millions and millions of us had no access to health insurance at all...if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there's a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance, because you had a pre-existing condition," he says.
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While it's true that association health plans would not be subject to the ACA's "essential health benefits" and "actuarial value" requirements — rules that apply to "small group" and "individual" market plans — this exemption has been misrepresented to suggest that these plans can (1) deny a person coverage if they have a pre-existing condition, (2) refuse to cover preventive services, and (3) impose annual and lifetime limits on the essential health benefits.
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The Right to be Smoke-Free Coalition and nine other groups filed a complaint at the end of June against the FDA, FDA's Commissioner of Food and Drugs Robert Califf and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE.
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It features government-paid, private provision of health care by Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), no incentive to cherry pick because the payment to the HMO is based on the participant's pre-existing condition (meaning HMOs can make as much income on sick as on healthy participants), lets employers keep their plans provided they allow non-employees to join and has a simple means of keeping health care spending within the national health care expenditure budget.
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CNN has been explaining this for days, but here's my take: The nuance here is important: - Yes, the bill maintains the Obamacare ban on insurers denying someone a plan because of a pre-existing condition - No, it doesn't explicitly get rid of the price protections for those with pre-existing conditions (community rating) Here's what it does: The bill allows individual states to obtain waivers to drop the mandate for price protections.
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David YoungDavid Edmund YoungChurches are arming and training congregants in response to mass shootings: report Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress Iowa Democrat calls foul on White House over Trump ethanol tour invite MORE (R-Iowa), whose race the Cook Political Report rates as a toss-up, last week introduced a resolution, co-sponsored by several other vulnerable GOP lawmakers, expressing the opinion of the House that pre-existing condition protections should be maintained.
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By the end of the conversation, my friend was comfortable enough to check themself in, I was reminded of how much I love their strength and intelligence, and the motivation of wanting to cut out your own organ in the name of control seemed less impulsively absurd to me; if only we could just amputate the existing condition that makes our heads this way, rather than subdue it into a mere dormant stage like a lithiumed volcano.
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Even before the official CBO score, there's no doubt that under the GOP plan over 20 million Americans will lose their health insurance; older Americans will pay more; Medicaid, the nation's largest healthcare program, will wither and die; over 85033 million Americans with diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or any other "pre-existing" condition, will pay more for insurance, if they're lucky enough to get any at all; and essential health benefits like maternity care or mammograms will no longer be covered.
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Claire McCaskillClaire Conner McCaskillEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Ocasio-Cortez blasts NYT editor for suggesting Tlaib, Omar aren't representative of Midwest Trump nominees meet fiercest opposition from Warren, Sanders, Gillibrand MORE (D-Mo.), in an interview with Fox News on Monday, said she "100 percent" supports Trump's efforts to stop the caravan at the border, but she also hit her GOP challenger, state Attorney General Josh Hawley, for backing a lawsuit that seeks to overturn ObamaCare and its pre-existing condition protections.
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But when it comes to the wall, Democrats have indicated they will rely on the ruling in House of Representatives versus Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mary Mathews BurwellWhy Trump will win the wall fight Price was a disaster for HHS — Time for an administrator, not an ideologue Overnight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill MORE, in which the court declared the House of Representatives had standing to sue over executive overreach and that Obama violated the Constitution in ordering the payment of billions to insurance companies without authorization from Congress.
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