What Are Pre-Existing Conditions?
(you’re able to see exactly what insurers were looking for onthis old app.)
And one underwriting manual showed that simply beingoverweightresulted in a 25 percent premium increase for some plans.
The surcharge for diabetes would be $5,600 per year.
Thats what the plans would revert to if the ACAs provisions are overturned.
(Large and small group plans would face worse outcomes.)
The Trump administration has declined to defend the law in court.
And every Republican member of Congresssave Sens.
Susan Collins, John McCain and Lisa Murkowski and 20 House Republicansvoted to repeal the ACA last year.
Repealing the ACA means repealing protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
I am in total support, a blatantly false statement.
Josh Hawleyis running forSenate in Missouri.
Nevada SenatorDean Hellerhasflip-flopped more than moston repealing the ACA.
TheNew York Times Margot Sanger-Katz has a morein-depth breakdownof other shady ads.
In August, 10 Republican Senatorsdid introduce their own planto theoretically fill the pre-existing coverage gap.
To Allison Hoffman, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, thats a big loophole.
Insurers could exclude someones preexisting conditions from coverage, even if they offered her a policy, Hoffman said.
That fact alone sinks any claims that this law offers pre-existing condition protection.
As Sanger-Katzwrote on Twitter, It is hard to know what is in peoples hearts.
Thats a fact regardless of what the ads say.
