Definition of preexisting
:existing at an earlier time
- a preexisting medical condition
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Preexisting Conditions Health care sharing ministries aren’t required to cover preexisting conditions.
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The Cruz Amendment is designed to lower premiums for younger and healthier people, at the risk of much higher premiums for those with preexisting health conditions.
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And allow insurers to once again discriminate against those with preexisting conditions and offer plans that wouldn't actually provide much coverage in the name of low cost.
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Provide all Americans with a basic health plan Americans overwhelmingly support policies that would prohibit insurers from charging higher prices to those with preexisting conditions.
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Subsidies that currently make health care affordable for millions of the poor, elderly, and those with preexisting conditions, would be paired back, dramatically raising premiums and deductibles for the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
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Subsidies that currently make health care affordable for millions of the poor, elderly, and those with preexisting conditions, would be paired back, dramatically raising premiums and deductibles for the nation’s most vulnerable populations.
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Keeps in place requirements to cover preexisting conditions and let children stay on parents' policies until age 26, though if subsidies decrease, those policies could cost people more.
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Because the Senate legislation would maintain preexisting condition protections, she couldn’t be denied coverage by an insurer and wouldn’t face higher premiums because of her illness.
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First Known Use of preexisting
1599
PREEXISTING Defined for English Language Learners
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of preexisting
:existing or present earlier or before a certain point of time
- In 1990, over 60 percent of group health insurance plans contained exclusions of coverage for preexisting conditions, signifying the denial of benefits for any illness present at the time the insurance is obtained.
- —Thomas Bodenheimer, in The New England Journal of Medicine, 23 June 1992
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