The Myth of Pre-Existing Conditions
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, December 28 2016
So much for the fake news that repealing Obamacare will victimize millions with pre-existing conditions.
Democrats are warning that once Obamacare is repealed, people with serious illnesses won't get health insurance. President Obama says repeal will mean going "back to discriminating against Americans with pre-existing conditions." That's fake news.
The truth is, every Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act protects people with pre-existing conditions.
At the same time, the GOP proposals will rectify Obamacare's insidious discrimination against healthy people. Obamacare forces the healthy to pay the same premiums as the chronically ill, whose medical costs are 10 times as high, on average. It's an unavoidable fact that 5 percent of the population consumes half the nation's health care.
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