With all due respect, you're ignoring that coverage for pre-existing conditions is inextricably linked to the individual mandate to buy inaurance. That's why Cooper asked the question the way he did.
You can't require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions unless you have an individual mandate for people to buy insurance when healthy. Otherwise, people will hold off on buying insurance until they have major medical expenses. They'll escape paying all the premiums when relatively healthy, and the insurance companies will be forced to start covering them when they get sick because of the rwquorent to cover pre-existing conditions.
That's why Trump supports the individual mandate for people to buy insurance. And that's also why so many of us have been demanding details. We knew that you couldn't have the stuff he was promising without an individual mandate.
Have any of the other candidates addressed if or how they would cover pre-existing conditions?
Could it be covered in the free market by forming a pool of high-risk customers?
That’s why Trump supports the individual mandate for people to buy insurance. And that’s also why so many of us have been demanding details. We knew that you couldn’t have the stuff he was promising without an individual mandate.
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I think we need more details, but, but he proposed 15 years ago was the ability for people to buy into the Federal system. In a group policy, pre-existing conditions are not a problem.
Here are the plans...how do they look?
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/plan-information/premiums/#url=Premiums
Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes. There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 , Jul 2, 2000