Government to lower prices, ease rules on health plans for people with preexisting conditions

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The Obama administration, expanding a program created by the new healthcare law, reduces premiums on preexisting condition insurance plans and loosens restrictions on who can sign up for them.


WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, expanding a program created by the new healthcare law, moved Tuesday to make health insurance more affordable and accessible for Americans who have been denied coverage because they are sick.

Across the country, the federal government is reducing premiums on special coverage available to uninsured people with preexisting conditions such as cancer or diabetes.

And the administration is loosening restrictions on who can sign up for so-called preexisting condition insurance plans.

These plans were created by the health overhaul that President Obama signed last year. They are meant to provide temporary aid to sick Americans until 2014, when insurance companies will no longer be allowed deny coverage to people who are sick.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/sc-dc-0601-healthcare-high-risk-20110531,0,490773.story

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1. Hope this works out as well as the article seems

To indicate that it will.

Now, if being older can qualify as "pre-existing," everything could be much more okay for those of us struggling to pay our own insurance premiums while on the harder side of age 49.