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  • #16
    Re: Health Insurance...

    The vast majority of the cases mentioned in this thread (including in the article in the op) are regarding cases of previous conditions being used as excuses to turn down insurance applications and/or benefits. Texas took that excuse away for pregnancy by making it illegal to consider pregnancy a pre-existing condition in the state. These same problems mentioned (ie being turned down for pre-existing conditions) would be eradicated by laws that made it illegal to turn down an application or a claim for a mental illness or other pre-existing condition that has been mentioned on this thread.

    From the op onward the major issue mentioned was pre-existing conditions. So, yes, Wallah! The way to get rid of this particular issue is to make it illegal for pre-existing conditions of the mental and other sorts to be considerations for declining an insurance application or benefits.
    Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
    With fingernails that shine like justice
    And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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    • #17
      Re: Health Insurance...

      Apparently, the pre-existing clause is gone in some cases and some states. I'm still a little confused on this issue. A talk with my mom about it again this morning caused a little bad blood to flow because I guess I got pushy about her trying to figure out whether or not there is a pre-existing clause on her current insurance plan. :huh: oops.

      Kris

      ETA I wonder if this is because my mom has only been at this job for 7 months and if the coverage changes after a year? :huh: I'm too afraid to ask her now though.
      ~Mom of 5, married to an ID doc
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      • #18
        Re: Health Insurance...

        I realized that, through the fog of little sleep, I repeatedly (and, horribly, I might add) screwed up what should be written as Voila. :P So, it kept bugging me once I realized it and I had to come back and correct my glaring, awful, laughable error.

        Oh, I don't have a problem with legislation being pushed through that got rid of these infernal pre-existing condition clauses. Laws have their place, of course.

        What I DO have a problem with is handing healthcare over to the government completely on a platter. THAT is something which would be royally screwed up in no time flat.
        Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
        With fingernails that shine like justice
        And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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