• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.

    I did.

    That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.

    • toast@retrolemmy.com
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      2 hours ago

      Well then you didn’t have any pre-existing conditions.

      I don’t know why you would assume that, or why you would imagine that I was unaware of this change.

      That was huge for me and millions of other people. A game-changer.

      Of course this was huge for people, but it wasn’t a huge reform for the health insurance agency. It didn’t change the for-profit nature of health insurance; it just put a guardrail on it. It softened one of the hardest edges of private health insurance, which made it palatable enough to escape real reform.