The pre-ex portion will be modified, not removed, in all probability. I had a two-hour long conference call last week on the possible scenarios that could play out with ‘repeal and replace’. It may be that if one has continuous medical coverage of some kind or another, pre-ex would be satisfied. It is the ones that wait until they are dx’d with some dread disease, have an accident, buy medical insurance for a few months when they need it and drop it when they don’t, that will have pre-ex applied to any new medical coverage purchased.
Just reading tea leaves at this point. My $0,02 at this point.
I hope it is satisfied, as you say, because pre-ex pools are a bad idea.