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)