Ensuring that people with pre-existing health conditions can get and keep health insurance is the most popular part of the Affordable Care Act. It has also become a flashpoint in this fall’s midterm campaigns across the country.
And not only is the ACA protection, which mostly applies to people who buy their own coverage, at risk. It’s also possible that pre-existing condition protections that predate the federal health law could be in play.
Democrats charge that Republicans’ opposition to the ACA puts pre-existing protections in peril, both by their (unsuccessful) votes in Congress in 2017 to “repeal and replace” the law and via a federal lawsuit underway in Texas.
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