June 17, 2018

No, having insurance at your job won't save you and your pre-existing condition from Trump

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/14/1771956/-No-having-insurance-at-your-job-won-t-save-you-and-your-pre-existing-condition-from-Trump
"The latest Affordable Care Act sabotage attempt from the occupier of the Oval Office takes direct aim at the protections we currently have against being prevented from getting health insurance because of our health status. Specifically, anyone with a pre-existing condition—ranging from asthma to pregnancy to acne to dodgy knees to cancer—cannot be refused coverage or have coverage priced so high it's not obtainable. That's the law, and has been since Obamacare was enacted. That's the law for everyone, not just people getting their insurance in the individual market or specifically through the Obamacare exchanges. Everyone. “Anyone who just thinks this is just impacting the 12 to 15 million individuals with individual coverage is wrong,” said Timothy Jost, an emeritus law professor at Washington and Lee University. […] “The implications aren’t nearly as big as for the individual market, but they’re real,” said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. “Some of these additional protections offered under the ACA were meaningful.” In supporting the specious challenge from Texas and 19 other conservative states, the Trump administration is telling the 27 percent of Americans who have some sort of pre-existing condition that we should go back to the bad old days when they could be denied coverage."