If you have pre-existing conditions you are screwed. They can't deny you but you can be charged more. Also, if you are older ie 50 or older you can be charged 5 times more than younger people. By then you will all have pre-existing conditions too.
@fudgiesmom2: I'm not sure about the Pre-x now as I've been searching for the mandate with the new plan and can't find in anything certain. You're 50 and over analogy is something you heard on CNN-here's the real deal-with Obamacare-he maxed out the difference in rating between 21 yr olds and older folks-making younger folks pay more than their claims accounted for (like ins co's have been rating for years, like auto and homeowners ins co do, life ins co's do ect ect) fro. Which screwed up the rating for ins co's and also made it to where they lost a lot of the younger folks because the rates were off. This was one of the numerous reasons we knew Obamacare was destined to fail way way way before implementation. Now-the OC care mandate for screwed up rating has been taken away and ins carriers can rate the correct way-taken loss rations into their factoring vs Obama's stupid mandate. That's a good thing!
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