Paul Ryan wants to end Obamacare protections for people with pre-existing conditions

[FlaGranny]

66. The absolutely BEST

part of the ACA is that people with pre-existing conditions can get insurance. I went without insurance for 6 or 7 years until I was eligible for Medicare. The reason? I was overweight. Healthy, you understand, no illnesses, but overweight. I spent those years praying nothing would happen to me and not seeing a physician the entire time. Now here I am, nearing my 76th birthday and still healthy. I had cataracts removed a few years ago, some dental work, and I will be needing my knees replaced. No heart disease, no diabetes, no cancer though.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s there was no such thing as a pre-existing condition making you ineligible for insurance. Insurance was a whole different animal back then. It changed drastically when large corporations began to be formed to run hospitals. There was no such thing as HCA or Tenet, most hospitals were nonprofits. Blue Cross and Blue Shield was actually a good, affordable health insurance plan. Profits for corporations killed health care for the a large portion of Americans.