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With regards to pre-existing conditions, Ryan's plan talks about continuous coverage policies. Under a "continuous coverage" policy, a person with a pre-existin
by platz 10y ago
With regards to pre-existing conditions, Ryan's plan talks about continuous coverage policies. Under a "continuous coverage" policy, a person with a pre-existing condition would need to avoid having any gap in insurance coverage in order to avoid paying more for insurance or being denied outright.
So if you lose your job and your health coverage, insurers would be able to deny you coverage.
But if you never have a gap, then you can't be discriminated against.
Rep. Steve King said " If we guarantee people that we will - that there will be a policy issued to them regardless of them not taking the responsibility to buy insurance before they were sick, that's the equivalent of waiting for your house is on fire and then buying property and casualty insurance.
- hackerboos 10y agoSo turn the entire population into H1B visa employees. Leave and you lose your health coverage forever?
- jly 10y agoI think what Steve King said makes sense to me - protections like 'blanket no denial for pre-existing conditions' could incentivize waiting to purchase insurance until a condition arises, which compromises the system. The gap solution, though, is not a great idea. If someone falls under a certain level of economic or other hard times and incurs a gap for even a very brief duration, it is in my opinion a very harsh penalty to use that as an excuse to deny them coverage. This is especially true when many families pay a large amount for existing coverage. The only tenable solution is to force everyone to have coverage. If that's the answer, I see no better implementation than single-payer.