Originally posted by Mountain Man
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The issue is that prior to ACA people could lose coverage they would normally have just because they changed jobs or lost their job and had to move to another job because insurance companies would refuse to take on a new client IF they were already sick with a disease they normally WOULD pay for. That is what coverage of pre-existing conditions is all about. And now, with ACA insurance companies are no longer allowed to refuse coverage to someone who, say, already has cancer when they buy the coverage. Specifically say when they change jobs and go from one provider to another.
The reason Tillis's bill is a lie is because they are using the terminology which is used to define this provision of the ACA, but the reality is they mean something very different. They just mean you'll get a policy- not a continuation of coverage. And the reality is they are allowing the insurance companies to do the same thing they were dong before, they are just calling it a different name. But they are using the terminology that implies that implies the opposite.
So it's a lie. They are not keeping the provision that makes it so insurance companies can't refuse to cover you if you have to switch providers during an illness.
Jim
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