Thread by @Nikhilwagle

A short thread about protections for people w pre-existing conditions (cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, etc):

Before 2010, insurance companies could deny coverage — or charge higher prices — to people with pre-existing conditions

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And before 2010, millions of people with these preexisting conditions faced significant barriers in getting individual insurance coverage.

The Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — changed that.

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The passage of the Affordable Care Act / Obamacare in 2010 guaranteed for the first time that *everyone* with pre-existing conditions could get insurance coverage & that they couldn’t be charged more for their plans.

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10 years later, this has completely changed the way Americans think about their insurance coverage.

Obamacare eliminated the very concept of pre-existing conditions in health insurance plans.

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Over the past 4+ years the Trump Administration & Republicans in Congress have been trying to dismantle Obamacare and eliminate its protections for people with preexisting conditions.

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Right now, there’s a lawsuit pending in the Supreme Court brought forward by a coalition of Republican Governors and supported by the Trump Administration — which, if successful, would strike down the Affordable Care Act.

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If the Supreme Court strikes down the ACA next month, *21 million* people will lose their insurance coverage — in the middle of the pandemic.

And the protections for people with preexisting conditions provided by Obamacare will disappear.

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There is NO replacement plan. Without the protections under Obamacare, tens of millions of people with preexisting conditions—cancer, heart disease, pregnancy (!), even COVID—can be discriminated against, charged more & denied insurance coverage

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The ACA didn’t solve everything. But it did transform health insurance in US. It provided coverage for millions, reducing the number of uninsured to historic lows. And it stopped insurance companies from discriminating against people who are sick
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The Biden health care plan protects and builds on the successes of Obamacare. It promises to expand access to affordable, high quality health care to millions more people who currently don’t have it.

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And the Biden health plan will continue to protect those who are sick or have preexisting conditions from being denied health insurance or being charged more.

Without Obamacare and Bidencare, those protections disappear.

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We can’t go backwards.

People who are sick or have been sick should never be denied care or charged more for insurance.

Everyone deserves access to affordable, high quality health care.

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