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"They take a backseat as the DOJ brief recommends ditching protection against discrimination.\nIn another move in the government’s seeming crusade to eat away at Americans’ access to affordable healthcare, the Department of Justice recently filed a brief supporting Texas and 19 other states in their desire to remove all protections for people with Medicare and pre-existing conditions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).\nProtection means that insurers cannot refuse a patient because of an illness or condition that existed before the patient applied for insurance. They also cannot charge more money, as some used to do, if they do issue insurance coverage for people with Medicare and pre-existing conditions.\nWithout protection, all sorts of bad things could ensue: ill patients could be without coverage, rates could go sky high or limits on lifetime coverage could be invoked.\n........"
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