Actually,there was a problem. I’m self employed and I couldn’t buy health insurance for over 30 years because I had had a melanoma removed - when I was 29. It required no follow up treatment, nothing, and I asked if I could get a policy excluding even that particular thing. The insurance companies told me it would be too costly for them to diagnose it in order to exclude it.
So, yes, there was definitely a problem. But the Clinton/Obama plan was NOT the solution.
I can sympathize with your plight, but if you were basically in a position where you were perfectly willing to buy an insurance policy but couldn’t find an insurer who wanted to do business with you, I’m not sure exactly what kind of “problem” this is from a government standpoint.
Agree: that's a problem. It used to be (so I thought) that you could sign on with some sort of exclusion period - say 2 years - in which coverage could be denied for condition X, Y, or Z. I would support a mandate for something like that: clearly you weren't attempting to 'game' the system.