President Trump and many other candidates opposing the ACA say they support protecting people with pre-existing conditions. Now seems like a good time to ask how they would do that if the ACA gets struck down, which is all of a sudden more likely.
Overturning the ACA is not only about pre-existing condition protections. It's also about the Medicaid expansion, closing the Medicare drug coverage donut hole, preventive services, Medicare payments to hospitals, taxes, and much more.
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You can’t just click your heels together three times to get insurance companies to guarantee pre-existing condition protections.
It takes strict regulations, plus government spending to make coverage affordable and encourage people who are currently healthy to enroll, too.
27% of non-elderly adults, or 54 million people, have a pre-existing condition that would have led to a denial of individual insurance before the Affordable Care Act.
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President Trump vows to protect people with pre-existing conditions. His record:
Supported ACA repeal and replace bills that would have weakened protections.
Expanded short-term plans that do not have to cover pre-existing conditions.
Supports a lawsuit to overturn the ACA.
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