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Regulation of pre-existing condition exclusions in individual (non-group) and small group (2 to 50 employees) health insurance plans in the United States was left to individual U.S. states as a result of the McCarran–Ferguson Act of 1945 which delegated insurance regulation to the states and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ...
Guaranteed issue is a term used in health insurance to describe a situation where a policy is offered to any eligible applicant without regard to health status. Often this is the result of guaranteed issue statutes regarding how health insurance may be sold, or to provide a means for people with pre-existing conditions the ability to obtain health insurance of some kind.
From pregnancy to diabetes -- you won't be denied coverage if you have a pre-existing condition, but your coverage could get a lot more expensive. Pre-existing conditions: How 130 million ...
The same memorandum said that 212,800 claims had been refused payment due to pre-existing conditions and that insurance firms had business plans to limit money paid based on these pre-existing conditions. These persons who might not have received insurance under previous industry practices are guaranteed insurance coverage under the ACA.
About one in four people have pre-existing conditions that made it difficult for them to get health insurance prior to President Obama's health care law.
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 was designed primarily to extend health coverage to those without it by expanding Medicaid, creating financial incentives for employers to offer coverage, and requiring those without employer or public coverage to purchase insurance in newly created health insurance exchanges. This requirement for almost all ...
The day of reckoning for the Affordable Health Care Act is nearly upon us. The last day of the Supreme Court's 2011-2012 session is tomorrow, which means we should get a ruling on the ...
Adults with existing conditions became eligible to join a temporary high-risk pool, which will be superseded by the health care exchange in 2014. [4] [18] To qualify for coverage, applicants must have a pre-existing health condition and have been uninsured for at least the past six months. [19] There is no age requirement. [19]