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This Essential Part of Obamacare Needs Expanding
The problem of pre-existing conditions extends far beyond health.
Pre-existing condition.
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The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and the related existential threat to the Affordable Care Act, got me to thinking about something even more troubling: the many ways in which society takes information about people — often on qualities or events that are irrelevant or out of their control — and uses it against them.
It’s a tendency that we need to curb.