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To: LostPassword
pre-existing conditions coverage

There isn't such a thing.

That's not insurance, it's a payment plan. To qualify as "insurance" you first must have something to insure...(your good health)

There is, however, such a thing as a pre-existing condition exclusion clause, which allows the insurer to write a policy which will cover everything except the named condition for a certain period of time.

If there is no recurrence within say 18 months, the condition will then be covered. Maine has (had) such a provision.

The answer is complete repeal, interstate competition, carrier-funded high risk pools and cumulative tax-free health savings accounts.

Providers also need serious reforms to stop the non-transparency of third-party billing and gouging of insurers and cash patients to pay for all the bad-debt and "free healthcare"

20 posted on 05/06/2017 6:25:21 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
...carrier-funded high risk pools ...

So how do the carriers fund these pools if not through everyone's insurance premiums?

What does this approach really buy us?

41 posted on 05/06/2017 8:12:58 AM PDT by semimojo
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