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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 ...
The Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) was a form of health insurance coverage offered to uninsured Americans who were unable to obtain coverage because of a pre-existing condition. These provided coverage to as many as 350,000 people to fill the gap until the Affordable Care Act went into effect in 2014.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
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Term life insurance: If your pre-existing condition is under control, term life insurance might be your best option. You can typically sign up for a 10- to 30-year term that will payout if you die ...
Critics of medical underwriting believe that it unfairly prevents people with relatively minor and treatable pre-existing conditions from obtaining health insurance. [6] Diseases that can make an individual uninsurable include serious conditions, such as arthritis , cancer , and heart disease but also such common ailments as acne , being 20 lb ...
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Insurers are prohibited from excluding pre-existing medical conditions (except in grandfathered individual health insurance plans) for children under the age of 19. [30] [31] All new insurance plans must cover preventive care and medical screenings [32] rated Level A or B [33] by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. [34]