Preexisting Conditions

Trapped in a Broken System

Gregory Trotter | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Affordable Care Act, Hiv, Healthcare Reform, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Ryan White Act, Preexisting Conditions, Ryan White, Preexisting-Conditions, Insurance-Companies-Preexisting-Conditions, Aca, ACA AIDS, Chicago News
Gregory Trotter

For the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV, the Affordable Care Act will be utterly life-changing. For some, it will be life-saving.

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Health Care Law Faces Long Road

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Video, Preexisting Conditions, Health Care Supreme Court, Ppaca, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Obama Health Care Law, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

WASHINGTON — It took only a year to set up Medicare. But if President Barack Obama's health care law survives Supreme Court scrutiny, it will be...

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Kids' Health Coverage Opportunity Ends March 1

Dave Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Health Coverage, Preexisting Conditions, California Uninsured Children, California Health Insurance, La Impact, Children Preexisting Conditions, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Act, Health Insurance, Los Angeles News
Dave Jones

We all need to do our part to spread the word about this critical -- but limited -- opportunity for California's uninsured children, who are now eligible for health coverage regardless of preexisting conditions.

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Steve King Dismisses Concerns Over Preexisting Conditions: 'Minor Thing'

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) claimed Wednesday that he wasn't worried about eliminating the popular preexisting conditions provision of the health care bi...

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Study: As Many As Half Of Under-65 Americans Have Preexisting Conditions

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Preexisting Conditions, Preexisting Condition, Health Care Study, Preexisting Conditions Study, Health Care, Pre-Existing Conditions, Home News

A government study released today shows that up to 50 percent of Americans under age 65 have some type of pre-existing health condition. The study ...

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Healthcare Reform Kicks Into Gear

Jason Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preexisting Conditions, High-Risk Pool, Small Business Credits, Lifetime Coverage Limits, Healthcare Reform, Home News
Jason Alderman

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act President Obama signed on March 23, 2010, set in motion a wide-ranging series of healthcare reforms. Al...

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Hey, Republicans - it's not nice to scare Grandma for no good reason

Mark Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, Preventive Care, Doughnut Hole, Doughnut-Hole, Wellness, Preexisting Condition, Preexisting Conditions, High-Risk-Pools, High Risk Pools, Business News
Mark Miller

I'm trying to remember when it was that Republicans became such big champions of Medicare. Certainly not in 1965, when the GOP joined the American Medical Association in fighting enactment of the program.

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Sam Stein

Angle Suggests Free Market Could Solve Pre-Existing Conditions Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Angle Preexisting Conditions, Preexisting Conditions, Sharron Angle, Angle Health Care, Angle Bill Manders, Politics News

Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle suggested on Monday that she'd prefer free-market remedies to a legislative mandate that insuranc...

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Arthur Delaney

Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: Health Department Unveils Program That Could Help 350,000 Uninsured

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uninsured, Preexisting Conditions, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Politics News

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a new program called the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan to provide insurance f...

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Dan Froomkin

Insurance Industry Already Finding Ways To Game New System

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Health Reform Loopholes, Preexisting Conditions, Health Insurance, Health Care Loopholes, Business News

The insurance industry's attempt to weasel out of one of the few provisions of the new health care reform law that took effect immediately is a harbin...

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Will Health Reform Law Stop Insurers From Denying Coverage? A Loophole That Deserves More Attention

Danielle Ivory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rescissions, Health Care Reform, Preexisting Conditions, Health Insurance, Retroactive Termination, Politics News
Danielle Ivory

As Obama's health care overhaul gets moving, loopholes threaten to undermine the legislation. Despite reports that the bill bans a controversial practice where insurers retroactively cancel health coverage of patients, the law hasn't changed.

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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain Strategist, Losing Health Coverage

The Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, i...

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Health Care Debate Looms Large At Thanksgiving

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerry Chautin

Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.

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GOP Health Care Bill WON'T Prevent Insurance Companies From Denying Sick People

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans are preparing to unveil their own health bill in the next few days. Minority Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Monday that the plan woul...

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Improving the Health Care Bill After It Passes Will Not Be Easy

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lincoln Mitchell

Progressives who oppose this bill are not being obstructionist. Rather, they are taking the position that when real opportunities to reform health care arise, it is essential to get it right.

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Insurers Limited Coverage For Acne, Pregnancy, Intention To Adopt

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Preexisting Conditions, Health Care Reform, Pregnancy Preexisting Condition, Pre-Existing Conditions, Acne Preexisting Condition, Health Care, Politics News

A proposal to make preexisting health conditions irrelevant in the sale of insurance policies could help not just the seriously ill but also people wh...

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Apologies for being sick, and other weekend stories

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multiple Sclerosis, Autism, Preexisting Conditions, Mccain, Health Reform, Home News
Harold Pollack

In the 1970s, people began quoting bromides of the sort: "a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." This wasn't logical or nice--not least fo...

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