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The Better Solution for 'Pre-Existing Conditions'
John Goodman in The Wall Street Journal Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Oct. 16, 2012

"The [ACA] established a federally funded risk pool -- the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan -- that allows individuals with such disqualifying conditions to buy a policy for the same premium a healthy person would pay. About 82,000 people have signed up as of July 31, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation ... That is not a misprint. Out of a population of more than 300 million, some 82,000 have the problem that was cited as the principal reason for spending $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years and in the process turning the entire health-care system upside down."

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