Pre-Existing Conditions: How the New Proposed Healthcare Plan Could Deny You Coverage

Pre-Existing Conditions: How the New Proposed Healthcare Plan Could Deny You Coverage Congressional Republicans are dead-set on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, seemingly without regard for making improvements to the system. The President’s promise was more people covered with better care at less cost. That is not what the new GOP proposal would provide. The main criteria for GOP proposals seems to be to make plans cheaper by eliminating access to care for millions of Americans. The latest iteration of the Republican healthcare proposal is to remove protections for “pre-existing conditions” from health insurance policies. This is the most disastrous of the Republican proposals to date. The Department of Health and Human Services defines pre-existing conditions as “a health problem you had before the date that new health coverage starts.” Since January 2014, insurance companies have been prohibited from refusing coverage to individuals based on pre-existing conditions. Pre-existing conditions are common. Anyone who has had cancer (even if now cancer-free) or has a chronic condition such as diabetes or heart disease has a “pre-existing” condition. This includes problems from childhood, including childhood cancers and Type 1 diabetes. Other pre-existing conditions include obesity, which means that if this healthcare plan was passed, right away more than 35% of Americans would be at risk of losing their healthcare coverage for being obese. One loses...
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