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Originally Posted by freemkt
But I thought Obamacare guaranteed coverage without regard to pre-existing
conditions.
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You have guaranteed primary health insurance coverage called Medicare Part A and B if you qualify for it, meet age and/ or health (disability) requirements. When you qualify each and every year they mail you a little book that spells out what is covered and what your out of pocket costs should be. Parts C and D are add ons and you pay for those. The insurers who sell these add ons have no legal requirement to sell them to you.
Obamacare i.e. the ACA left Medicare alone apart from putting some limits on what healthcare providers could bill the government for your care (projected to reduce the cost burden on tax payers by about 800 billion dollars over the next 10 years) and some requirements on what the private insurers could or would not cover.It also added some small things like paying doctors or other health providers for doing preventative diagnostics to avoid expensive health problems and teaching patients how to avoid expensive health problems which may save trillions of dollars in the future that either tax payers would pay or would go into the national debt.
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