Pre Existing Condition

Jeffrey Young

Administration Halts Program That Helped Sick People Find Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.27.2012

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Health insurance agents and brokers will no longer be getting paid to tell sick people about a government-backed health insurance plan that can't turn...

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Arthur Delaney

Health Care Reform Beneficiary 'Very Nervous' About Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 03.28.2012

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Mary Duffy is worried that if the Supreme Court strikes down health care reform, she will lose her health insurance. Duffy, who is 62 and lives in ...

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"Hands Off My Health Care!" (This Message Brought to You By the Health Insurance Industry)

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Congress, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Care, Pre-Existing-Condition, Supreme Court Health Care, Politics News
Wendell Potter

Supporters of the law should co-opt the "hands off" slogan and make it their own. That would require adding just a few more words here and there to make clear what would be lost if the law is repealed, gutted or declared unconstitutional.

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The Health Care Law Turns Two

Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A. | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Affordable Care Act Benefits, African Americans Health Care, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Pre-Existing-Condition, Politics News
Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.

The Affordable Care Act gives you the peace of mind that, soon, you will not be denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition, and that you will not be dropped from your insurance if you get sick.

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Health Reform and My 8-Year-Old Son

Michelle Cunningham | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Health Care Coverage, Health Care Reform, Childhood Leukemia, Leukemia, Health Care, Pre-Existing-Condition, Affordable Care Act, Parents News
Michelle Cunningham

I am grateful for the Affordable Care Act because my 8-year-old son, a leukemia survivor, has health insurance today because of it.

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Would Ron Paul Supporters Let Their Mothers Die Without Health Insurance?

Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.16.2011

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Brent Budowsky

Here is my question for Ron Paul supporters. Imagine that your mother got laid off her job and lost health insurance and needed emergency treatment. ...

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Arthur Delaney

More People Sign Up For Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, But Enrollment Still Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Hhs, Pcip, Pre-Existing Conditions, Pre-Existing Condition, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's fledgling program for people with pre-existing conditions inched up to 18,313 in March, the Obam...

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Mother's Truth Inadmissible at Republican Show Trial

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ethan Rome

Instead of creating jobs and growing the economy, the Republicans are re-fighting the battles of a year ago and trying to take us back to the days when insurance companies had a stranglehold on our health care.

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Arthur Delaney

Arizona Couple Ditches Insurance To Qualify For Health Care Reform's High-Risk Pool

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Pcip, Pre-Existing Condition, Health Care, Politics News

Michele Rappaport and her husband, Alan Sorkowitz, said they watched the monthly premiums for their health insurance policy jump from $1,700 to nearly...

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Anti-Health Care Republicans Officially Receive Taxpayer-Funded Coverage

Rep. Joe Courtney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Politics, Congress, Joe Courtney, Connecticut, Health Care Reform, Patients, Health Care Repeal, Health Care, Bill Frist, Pre-Existing-Condition, Affordable Care Act, Politics News
Rep. Joe Courtney

Today, Republican Members of Congress who ran on a platform of repealing health care and patients' rights for millions of Americans officially began receiving their own Congressional health insurance.

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Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Has Just 8,011 Enrollees

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The health care reform program designed as a stopgap to provide insurance coverage for the uninsurable until the new law's major provisi...

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Health Overhaul Centerpiece Endures Growing Pains

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pre-Existing Condition, Health Care Reform, Hcr, High Risk Pool, Health Insurance, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, Politics News

WASHINGTON — It's a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medica...

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Health Reform a Welcome Birthday Present for One Denver Boy

David Frey | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Frey

As health reform legislation kicks in, I'm thinking about Justin. When the package was passed, it came just in time for his 11th birthday, a day he survived to see thanks to our country's great health care system.

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When the Republicans Lie About Health Care, We Have to Fight Back

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ethan Rome

When the Republicans say they want to repeal the health care law, they're talking about giving health care back to the insurance companies so they can deny our care, drop us when we get sick and jack up our rates whenever they please.

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Insurance Companies Abandon Sick Children And Lie About It - Mike Huckabee Says That's OK

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ethan Rome

The latest announcement by the insurance companies that they won't cover kids is immoral, and to blame their appalling behavior on the new law is patently dishonest.

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High-Risk Illinois Patients May Be Stuck Paying High Rates Despite Federal Program

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Illinois Healthcare, High-Risk Patients, Health Insurance Premiums, Federal Health Benefits, Health Reform, Pre-Existing-Condition, Illinois Health Reform, Chicago News

CHICAGO — For thousands of Illinois residents who pay high health insurance premiums because of medical problems, the new federal health care le...

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Peaceful Revolution: Stay Vigilant: Health Reform Battles Lie Ahead

Bruce Lesley | Posted 11.17.2011

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Bruce Lesley

Obama has announced that, beginning this September, health insurance plans will no longer be allowed to deny coverage for children with pre-existing conditions. Done, right? Well, not so fast.

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Health Care and Etymology

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Chronic Illness, Pre-Existing-Condition, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Christopher Brauchli

Houston was born March 15 and is currently only two weeks old. Too young to be instructing anyone in much of anything, he has in fact served as a tutor for his parents in diseases of the heart and etymology.

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Insurers Might Delay Covering Children With Pre-Existing Conditions

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Reform, Hcr, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Children's Health, Child Health Care, Pre-Existing-Condition, Politics News

Just days after President Obama signed the new health care law, insurance companies are already arguing that, at least for now, they do not have to pr...

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A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Texas Governor's Race

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Cutbirth

I'm wondering what it's going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term "socialism" over-and-over to describe the insurance reform Congress passed last week.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Denies Newborn Health Insurance Over 'Pre-Existing Condition'

Fort Worth Star-Telegram | JAN JARVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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At birth, Houston Tracy let out a single loud cry before his father cut the cord and handed him to a nurse. ... "How can he have a pre-existing...

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Health Care Reform: The Big Losers

Rob Kutner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Kutner

In order to stay within budgetary parameters, many of the key provisions in the Act don't take effect until 2014 -- a full two years after the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it.

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Health Care -- It's About Time

Mark C. Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark C. Alexander

Today we are declaring that we are a nation where all of us will have the opportunity to obtain basic affordable health care. In this, the greatest country on earth, we owe ourselves nothing less.

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Health Care Bill: A Look Inside The Legislation's Details

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress approved a major overhaul of the nation's health care system for President Barack Obama's signature. Here are some of the features of the leg...

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I'm About to Dive Into Health Reform's High Risk Pool

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lee Stranahan

I'm actually a prime candidate for one of the key provisions being touted by the bill's supporters; the high risk pools that will be created in the next 90 days for people with pre-existing conditions.

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