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05-05-2017, 03:18 AM
Brave Americans to Congress: 'I am a pre-existing condition'
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I have a pre-existing condition (http://mashable.com/2017/03/22/obamacare-mental-illness-facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).*
So do millions of other Americans—and they're sharing them online in a heartbreaking act of protest.*
SEE ALSO: Give Trumpcare a break: Here's all the pre-existing conditions it will cover (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/trumpcare-preexisting-conditions-list/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
A recent study (http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/pre-existing-conditions-and-medical-underwriting-in-the-individual-insurance-market-prior-to-the-aca/) by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 52 million people under the age of 65 have a pre-existing condition that could have been used to deny them coverage before Obamacare.*
And **w Republicans in the House have passed a healthcare plan with an amendment that allows (https://www.brookings.edu/2017/05/02/allowing-states-to-define-essential-health-benefits-could-weaken-aca-protections-against-catastrophic-costs-for-people-with-employer-coverage-nationwide/) states to waive:
The "essential health benefits" that healthcare plans must currently cover.
Prohibitions on charging people with pre-existing conditions more for health coverage.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/i-am-a-preexisting-condition-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Healthcare (http://mashable.com/category/healthcare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Affordable Care Act (http://mashable.com/category/affordable-care-act/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ahca (http://mashable.com/category/ahca/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Obamacare (http://mashable.com/category/obamacare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/FxwoHwGa46A
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I have a pre-existing condition (http://mashable.com/2017/03/22/obamacare-mental-illness-facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).*
So do millions of other Americans—and they're sharing them online in a heartbreaking act of protest.*
SEE ALSO: Give Trumpcare a break: Here's all the pre-existing conditions it will cover (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/trumpcare-preexisting-conditions-list/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
A recent study (http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/pre-existing-conditions-and-medical-underwriting-in-the-individual-insurance-market-prior-to-the-aca/) by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 52 million people under the age of 65 have a pre-existing condition that could have been used to deny them coverage before Obamacare.*
And **w Republicans in the House have passed a healthcare plan with an amendment that allows (https://www.brookings.edu/2017/05/02/allowing-states-to-define-essential-health-benefits-could-weaken-aca-protections-against-catastrophic-costs-for-people-with-employer-coverage-nationwide/) states to waive:
The "essential health benefits" that healthcare plans must currently cover.
Prohibitions on charging people with pre-existing conditions more for health coverage.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/04/i-am-a-preexisting-condition-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Healthcare (http://mashable.com/category/healthcare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Affordable Care Act (http://mashable.com/category/affordable-care-act/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Ahca (http://mashable.com/category/ahca/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Obamacare (http://mashable.com/category/obamacare/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/FxwoHwGa46A