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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3.1 million young adults - 62,000 Americans with pre-existing health conditions
Those are the big winners today!
http://www.webmd.com/medicare/news/20120628/supreme-court-health-care-law-decision?ecd=wnl_nal_men_062812
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)and has switched jobs 3 times. Yes, insurance has covered her pre-existing condition, but this is in a liberal state. Health insurance is NOT the same across the country, even with the same insurance corporation.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)and 32.5 MILLION PEOPLE have taken advantage of no-copay preventative services.
Not to mention that an additional 15 million people still can't get health insurance coverage because of preexisting conditions, and they will start getting able to purchase insurance again in 2014.
This is really a great day for the USA!!!
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)for routine care (and we have not yet had the largest routine expenses): $23,500.
Our family is a winner, at the moment, because $11,400 of it is for my daughter who would currently have no insurance coverage but for the ACA.
Our family will be a bigger winner in 2014 when she will be able to purchase her own health insurance, despite medical costs for disorders that - in a good year - run at around $60,000. (In a bad year, her costs will be more than $500,000). Because it is unlikely that she will always be able to work full time because of her health, in the years she can't work the cost of her insurance will be subsidized.
I'd prefer single payer - but I'll take insurance that cannot reject her and is not priced based on having good health.