Chaffetz just had surgery for a pre-existing condition, but will return to vote YES on bill that wo

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3. Here's a link to a story on it.

The amendment as I understand it would put it to the states to keep people with per-existing conditions covered. Here's a link to the actual amendment, I confess that it is rather arcane with a disclaimer at the end, but the devil is in the details. High risk pools have been used by insurers for years to price those who develop chronic health problems out of the market. They would move the healthy to cheaper pools concentrating the less healthy. The low risk pool gets good rates the high risk pool gets extremely high rates.
"17 (b) NO LIMITING ACCESS TO COVERAGE FOR INDI-
VIDUALS WITH PREEXISTING CONDITIONS.—Nothing in
19 this Act shall be construed as permitting health insurance
20 issuers to limit access to health coverage for individuals
21 with preexisting conditions."

http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-a790-d120-addb-f7dc0ec90000

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/healthcare-repeal-pre-existing-conditions-moderates-237713