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Re:When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested by Animats on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:33AM (#21302589)
No. No US health insurance sold via the ACA marketplace can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. There are new "short term" insurance policies which are not ACA compliant, and do not cover pre-existing conditions.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/short-term-plans-...

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Re:When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested by lotsofpulp on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#21305729)
Thanks for that info. I don’t understand why those are allowed to exist, and more importantly, why people buy them.
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Re:When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested by ceejayoz on Monday October 21, 2019 @09:12AM (#21311846)
People buy them because 90% of the customers are happy evangelists. "I pay next to nothing for my health insurance!"

The other 10% actually wound up having to use it, and discovered why the ACA said they don't count as insurance.

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