we got heart disease in the family, high blood pressure, diabetes, fibroids.....

and surgery....

We all have a critical, terminal condition called "Life."

The VAST majority of us will get sick, all of us will die.

Last year, when he was eight, MRIs taken at Children's Hospital in Denver discovered that he had been born without carotid arteries.

It's shared by my mother, my sisters and nieces. We're all female. According to the insurance companies, that's a pre-existing condition that
requires a higher insurance premium.

Though easily correctable by surgery, insurance didn't want to pay to fix her birth defect because it was "pre-existing." Facetiously, I asked if we'd missed filling out the permission slip to get pregnant, as that's the only way we could have prepared the insurance company for her existence.

Ultimately, I had to involve a lawyer to get the insurance company to make good on the coverage I had paid into for over 12 years.

because heaven only knows what basic screening tests might uncover. So my application never gets fully processed - I tried and got endless runaround.

I just need to hang on and keep praying until 2014 when the subsidies will make it affordable for me. The high-risk pool is way beyond my budget right now.

Oh, and I have a couple of skin lesions that are probably pre-cancerous. That's a deal killer.

all illness is pre-existing, either a genetic proclivity, or latent opportunist microbes, we are all born with a weakness of some sort or another that in time, under the right conditions, will become an illness. The line between existing and pre-existing always seemed pretty vague to me.

exists because a guy slammed into the back of a car. I just happened to be sitting in the back seat when he did it. There was no illness, there were no genetics involved. I instantly became a 'high risk' because some fool couldn't control his car in the rain.

good luck getting us covered with my job at a big multi-national corporation.

OCD Diagnosis, Skin Cancer, and the list goes on.

I'd say this is a pretty good ruling for my family. I KNOW this is a good ruling for me.

had it my whole life, became a pre-existing condition in 1993

(although I haven't had a migraine since 2007). Five more years and I will have Medicare, but for now I pay at a higher rate than my husband. We are self insured.

major

Several of us, in fact.

..

she's been uninsured for a couple years and i worry about her

to the fact that at age 4 he wore glasses.

I am so relieved! His parents are struggling financially and have no employment related health care. This is a godsend...

As far as I can determine, I will have to wait until 2014 for coverage, since I am not employed right now.

And my brother may have a pre-existing condition, but won't know unless he has tests to find out.

a perinatal stroke and ADHD.

I also came down with diabetes and high blood pressure 5 years ago.

Fortunately, I have Medicare.

Not necessarily life threatening in the short term, but debilitating and life threatening in the long term.

also my brother, Melanoma survivor.

hasn't been diagnosed, yet ...

We have three people with pre-existing conditions, some of us more than one.

but my family has a genetic knee disorder. My did and my uncle have been had knee surgeries and my grandfather has it do but never had surgery and I am starting to feel it in my knees and I'm only 24. I have no idea what it is called so please don't ask lol. Also is insanity a pre-existing condition? If so then everyone in my family has that.

My husband has multiple sclerosis and is in the TX pool for those who can't get insurance---but it is expensive. My 21 yr. old son and I have a joint policy, but my insurance company told me they would never pay for anything that involved my left shoulder, as I once had frozen shoulder. My insurance never paid anything on my shoulder at the time, as my deductible was around $5000. Therefore, I opted to pay $25 for a download of physical therapy exercises to do at home, rather than spend hundreds, if not thousands on physical therapy. I now have full mobility, no pain, and full recovery. Still, they won't insure my left shoulder.

All this information is from a conversation with them (Blue Cross Blue Shield) prior to passage of the ACA, so I'm assuming it will change--if it hasn't already.

I voted no even though the poll itself is erroneous. A pre-existing condition is a legal term for insurance providers to draw a line on what to cover under your basic health plan. So the "no" part of the poll shouldn't ask if we're all healthy but rather if our health plan covers what a basic wouldn't under the condition "pre-existing".

So I voted no, but then our health plan is above average so there's not much that is excluded.

Yes I pay for it, and no I don't think its my right to have it.

Not extended coverage, but basic?