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End So-Called "Pre-Existing Conditions!"

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: SEIU

The insurance industry regularly refuses coverage to people with so-called "pre-existing conditions." Recently we've started to learn just what, exactly, qualifies as a "pre-existing condition," and the facts are startling.

In eight states and Washington, D.C., insurance companies are able to deny coverage to victims of domestic violence, claiming it as a "pre-existing condition." Insurance companies have also denied women coverage due to previous pregnancies and c-sections. And one insurance company is even telling healthy clients that they must be sterilized if they want to receive coverage! (Listen to Peggy tell her nightmare story here.)

It makes you wonder, where do these guys draw the line? What is NOT considered a "pre-existing condition"?

We're on the verge of passing sweeping health insurance reform that would end this practice once and for all. Tell Congress that health insurance reform must happen now. We can't afford to wait!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 30,000

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Dear [Decision Maker],

I am writing you today to express my support for a health insurance reform bill that forbids insurance companies from discriminating based on "pre-existing conditions."

Today, insurance companies are denying women coverage due to previous pregnancies and c-sections. And in eight states and Washington, D.C., insurance companies are able to deny coverage to victims of domestic violence, claiming it as a "pre-existing condition."

[Your comments inserted here]

No one should be denied health care coverage, least of all people who have already endured so much. I ask that you pass health insurance reform that protects all Americans from the arbitrary practice of denying coverage based on "pre-existing conditions."

Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We took action on “End So-Called "Pre-Existing Conditions!"”:

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4:41 pm PST, Nov 20, Mitzi Koehl, North Carolina

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4:26 pm PST, Nov 20, Jeff Evans, Ohio

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3:38 pm PST, Nov 20, Laura Poskus, Illinois

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1:16 pm PST, Nov 20, Keegan Allen, Vermont

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12:26 pm PST, Nov 20, Marilyn Miller, California

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12:04 pm PST, Nov 20, Megan Martin, Pennsylvania

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11:43 am PST, Nov 20, Ant Man, Ohio

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10:12 am PST, Nov 20, Laurie Majul, California

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9:52 am PST, Nov 20, Dwi Novilia Suyono, Indonesia

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8:55 am PST, Nov 20, Golak Nadery, California

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7:49 am PST, Nov 20, Name not displayed, Arizona

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7:31 am PST, Nov 20, Stephen Weatherby, Georgia

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7:16 am PST, Nov 20, Connie Oglesby, Iowa

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7:15 am PST, Nov 20, Bethany Brown, Maine
With the disloyalty of Employers today, it is not fair for Health Insurance Companies to impose pre-existing conditions to insureds.

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7:03 am PST, Nov 20, Linda Isham, New Jersey

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6:35 am PST, Nov 20, Margaret Sampson, Illinois

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6:19 am PST, Nov 20, Linda Britt, Virginia

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5:40 am PST, Nov 20, Diedre McDonald, Maryland

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4:54 am PST, Nov 20, Suzanne Pell, Florida

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11:17 pm PST, Nov 19, DENISE FORTE, Georgia

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3:42 pm PST, Nov 19, Ann Jenkins, Georgia

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2:13 pm PST, Nov 19, Joshua Roark, Kentucky

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1:58 pm PST, Nov 19, Sara Oleary, Illinois

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12:00 pm PST, Nov 19, Gene Labovitz, California

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10:25 am PST, Nov 19, Love Animals Too, New York

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8:24 am PST, Nov 19, Irena Schulz, Indiana

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8:22 am PST, Nov 19, Leoan Amick, Michigan

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7:03 am PST, Nov 19, Gerald Wood, Illinois

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6:48 am PST, Nov 19, Corinna Neely, Pennsylvania
Those with pre-existing conditions are the people who most need affordable health insurance coverage and need the most help to get by. Affordable health coverage should be available to all people; to deny it to anyone would be discrimination, plain and simple. As far as I'm concerned, denying a person health coverage due to a pre-existing condition should be illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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5:30 am PST, Nov 19, Courtney Osborne, Ohio

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4:43 am PST, Nov 19, Laurie Bonjo, Pennsylvania

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2:00 am PST, Nov 19, Charlotte Gibbs, Michigan
I wonder if any of the women working for insurance companies have had a C-Section????

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12:33 am PST, Nov 19, Gianmarco Fucili, Italy
...what I red it's something inhuman...there's nothing to comment about...profit can't be more important than a human life

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9:26 pm PST, Nov 18, Angeline Zalben, Washington

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9:01 pm PST, Nov 18, Martha Swaim, California

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6:40 pm PST, Nov 18, Sarah Stirling, Massachusetts

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3:20 pm PST, Nov 18, Lauralee Stark, California

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