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The latest effort to kill the Affordable Care Act could affect millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions. Republicans are still trying to kill the patient protections in the Affordable ...
“Forthcoming policy proposals are likely to raise people’s costs for health coverage, roll back protections for people with pre-existing conditions and increase the number of people without ...
Medicare, Medicaid, and preexisting conditions Trump has not provided specifics about his affordable healthcare policies, beyond saying he has "concepts of a plan" at the September debate.
Those plans offered lower premiums but also had restrictions, such as denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Trump cut funding for marketing and outreach for ACA programs, leading ...
Trump has falsely claimed he saved the coverage of pre-existing conditions provided in ACA. [99] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website states that 50–129 million non-elderly Americans (19–50 percent) have pre-existing conditions that could place them at risk of losing insurance coverage without ACA protections. [100]
According to Trump, Obama convinced him, during their discussion, to retain certain aspects of his signature policy Obamacare, including the ban on insurance companies denying new coverage to those with pre-existing conditions and the right of parents to keep their adult children on their health insurance policies until the age of 25. [46]
He pushed for a repeal-and-replace bill in 2017 that was projected to cost millions of people their coverage and weaken regulations that protected people with pre-existing conditions.
Moreover, it maintains some aspects of the ACA including ensuring insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions, allowing children to stay on their parents' health care until they are 26 years old, and banning the use of lifetime spending limits by insurance companies. [33]