Vice President and Global Head of Translational Medicine, Genentech/Roche | Previously @danafarber @broadinstitute @Count_Me_In
Oct 25, 2020 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
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.
