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Those who cannot get insurance due to prexisting conditions (which in some cases are as simple as having been admitted into the hospital for one night ten years ago).
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Can we get coverage for that illness or was it a prexisting condition resulting from the 3 years of campaign leading up to this situation?
America 'traumatized' by health-care debate, key Democrat says 2009
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Personally, I think that there does need to be a public option that is limited to those that have been denied because of prexisting conditions and those that have insurance that is just to expensive to use.
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While our polititions argue about this option they pass a bill to negotiate the price of prescription medications, they can introduce more compition into the markets and open up the demographics so they are not so monopolized, they can due something about droping people because of prexisting conditions, due something about malpractice fraud.
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The only difference will be that they cant screw people who get sick, or the people with prexisting conditions.
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There are millions of people with prexisting conditions and out of work that have to have a Public Option.
Key Democrat predicts final health bill will have 'some form' of public option 2009
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So if he didn't come up with the concept then that means he literally did nothing since the shots are just mimicking a prexisting movie.
Another Brett Ratner-directed Guitar Hero Commercial | /Film 2008
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Then i red into it and found that it was a great idea. no insurance company can turn down someone with a prexisting condition now. thats great. and now less people are gonna go bankrupt because 2:3 people before this bill went bankrupt because of not haveing health care, now this number should go greatly down.
LIVE Blog: Obama set to sign executive order on abortion limits 2010
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Since everybody knows older people are more likely to have pre-existing conditions, it's a back door way to replace exorbitant premiums for prexisting conditions with exorbitant premiums for being older.
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More generally, since you are against regulation, what is your approach to solving the problem of a person with a prexisting condition who loses his job and his insurance.
Your Zip Code or Yourself, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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