Tag: Pre-existing Conditions

States Attacking ACA Would Suffer Most If Shield On Preexisting Conditions Were Axed

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit “are paying lip service to these critical protections for people, but they are in fact engaged in a strategy that would get rid of those protections,” said Justin Giovannelli, an associate research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms. […]

Video: Senator Slams Administration, Says Recent Decision Makes Mockery of Drug Price Campaign

At a U.S. Senate Health Committee hearing this week, a top administration official tried to say that the decision by the Department of Justice to undo health insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions had nothing to do with the president’s campaign to rein in […]

Trump’s Latest Obamacare Attack Could Affect 52 Million Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions

52 million Americans  could be affected by the latest healthcare tripwire purposefully set off by the Trump administration, which is declining to support certain mandates that include protections for pre-existing conditions. In 2016, a Kaiser Family Foundation study estimated that 27 percent of adult Americans […]