There are more entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs that fall into the pre-existing condition bucket than you might think. It's not only people with seriou

There are more entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs that fall into the pre-existing condition bucket than you might think. It's not only people with serious chronic illnesses that would make them unlikely to start a company anyway, but anyone who has an elevated risk due to a major past health event, even someone who hasn't had an issue in 20 years and is perfectly capable of and willing to do a startup. Those people are currently chained to a BigCorp due to the need for group-plan health coverage, and are hopeful that PPACA will change that. Even among the relatively few people I know interested in doing startups (probably 5?), one is in that category: an early-30s software engineer with a congenital heart defect. He had surgery in his early teens for it, and has not had a major issue since then. It doesn't interfere with his daily life, but obviously there is added monitoring and a significantly elevated risk of future complications, which disqualifies him from non-BigCorp health coverage.