Friday, April 27, 2012

Pre-existing condition

  • Health insurance agents and brokers will no longer be getting paid to tell sick people about a government-backed health insurance plan that cant turn them down.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A report issued by the Government Accountability Office estimated that between 36 million and 112 million American adults have some form of pre-existing condition that could result in health coverage denials or restrictions.
  • (Kaiser Health News)
  • Myrna Rodriguez Previte, a breast cancer survivor from Cleveland, shares her story about her struggle to get health insurance. She was first diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36 in 2003; she needed surgery and six months of radiation.
  • (Whitehouse.gov (press release))
  • Sievers said her case is almost gone after applying medicated cream. Sievers says shes actually grateful this happened because she has a pre-existing blood condition that was out of control. Her trip to the hospital yesterday brought that to light.
  • (Abc Local Web)
  • and a health care bill that provides coverage even for people with pre-existing conditions.
  • (Denver Post)
  • Quite simply, its impossible, as even the Obama administration admitted in arguments before the Supreme Court, to require universal coverage for pre-existing conditions unless people are always covered.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • I guess we can do that down the road, but it did a couple of things. Folks that had pre-existing conditions, no fault of their own - my gosh, they lost the genetic - HUNT: That's the good part of the bill.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • According to the report, 73% had some kind of difficulty buying health insurance for a number of reasons, including being turned away or charged more because of a pre-existing medical condition, or because finding an affordable policy was a near impossibility.
  • (WebMD)

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