{"id":30198,"date":"2012-09-10T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/romney-backs-the-pre-existing-conditions-on-pre-existing-conditions.html"},"modified":"2012-09-11T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:46:43","slug":"romney-backs-the-pre-existing-conditions-on-pre-existing-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/romney-backs-the-pre-existing-conditions-on-pre-existing-conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"Romney backs the pre-existing conditions on Pre-Existing Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The law long supported people not being denied new group insurance because of pre-existing conditions as long as, within a limited time frame, they had previously been insured by group coverage — going between jobs, for example, or moving, or changing coverage plans from an employer.<\/p>\n

Which is all just jolly, Mitt, but it leaves out people who are unemployed for months, or who are moving from group coverage to individual coverage because of employment changes (or the other way around). \u00a0Anyone who exists outside the "normal"\u00a0bounds of constantly-employed corporate America.<\/p>\n

Given that insurance coverage is the gatekeeper to actually getting decent medical care, especially<\/i> for the sort of problems that "pre-existing conditions" call into play, Romney's desire to return to the status quo ante<\/i> fails as a way to make people feel good about his compassion on health care.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Romney backtracks:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn a Sunday interview, Mitt Romney spoke out for a popular provision in the Affordable Care Act that guarantees coverage for people with preexisting conditions. But his campaign later clarified that h…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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The law long supported people not being denied new group insurance because of pre-existing conditions as long as, within a limited time frame, they had previously been insured by group coverage — going between jobs, for example, or moving, or changing coverage plans from an employer. 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