re: #43 goddamnedfrank

No, it’s not. The only plans that are allowed to continue discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions are the one with grandfathered in contracts. If you have high blood pressure now and your health insurance company won’t cover any complications from that, it’s allowed to continue denying you coverage after 2014. Only new contracts are affected by the law.

That’s the reason that old plans, across the board, are non-conforming.

Here’s WebMD on it. Looks like it goes outlaw even for plans that are not ACA Qualified Health Plans. If old contracts are grandfathered, they will quickly disappear to market forces.

webmd.com