List of Pre Existing Conditions,ACA-Obama Care,AHCA-Trump Care,BCRA

Pre Existing Condition:

Pre Existing Condition means any illness/medical condition that you have at the time of purchase of health insurance policy.

Before 2014 some insurance policies would never use to cover the medical condition that is present in a patient at the time of enrollment, and services related to that condition for a particular period. The medical condition is called as Pre Existing Condition and the period that the patient has to wait before the insurance starts paying for that condition is known as waiting period. In some cases, pre existing conditions may not be covered at all.

List of Pre Existing Conditions:

AIDS/HIV	Epilepsy
Alzheimer’s	Friedreich’s Ataxia
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	Hepatitis
Anorexia	Kidney disease
Anxiety	Lupus
Arthritis	Menstrual irregularities
Aortic or Mitral Valve Stenosis	Multiple Sclerosis
Arteriosclerosis	Muscular Dystrophy
Arteritis	Myasthenia Gravis
Asbestosis	Obesity
Asthma	Organ transplants
Bipolar disease	Paraplegia
Cancer	Paralysis
Cardiomyopathy	Parkinson’s Disease
Cerebral Palsy	Pregnancy
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	Psoriatic Arthritis
Cirrhosis of the Liver	Pulmonary Fibrosis
Coagulation Defects	Renal Failure
Congestive Heart Failure	Sarcoidosis
Cystic Fibrosis	Scleroderma
Demyelinating Disease	Schizophrenia
Depression	Sleep apnea
Dermatomyositis	Stroke
Diabetes	Transsexualism
Esophageal Varicosities	Tuberculosis

Above is the some of the list of pre existing conditions.

But this exclusion is prohibited since January 1, 2014 by the ACA-Affordable Care Act(Obama Care).

According to this law, Insurance companies are banned if they deny treatment for your pre-existing condition or charge you more premium. Once you’re enrolled, the plan can’t refuse your coverage based on your health.

American Health Care Act (AHCA) also called as Trump Care to partially repeal Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) was passed by the House on 2017.

Senate amendments have renamed it as BCRA-Better Care Reconciliation Act or ORRA-Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act, and this act was passed by the House on 2017.

Below table describes major differences and similarities between the ACA, AHCA and BCRA

ACA	AHCA-March 2017
Insurers are banned from denying coverage or charging more for pre-existing conditions	Each state can allow insurers to increase premiums based on pre-existing conditions after a lapse in coverage, if the state sets up a high-risk pool

BCRA-May 2017	BCRA-June 2017
Insurers are banned from denying coverage or charging more for pre-existing conditions	Insures are banned for denying coverage or charging more for pre-existing conditions but will receive funding for unexpected losses due to this requirement

For summary of Better Care Reconciliation Act you can visit @ http://files.kff.org/attachment/Summary-of-the-Better-Care-Reconciliation-Act

Upon checking found many of them even had queries

Is Pregnancy covered?.

The answer is “Yes”

If you’re pregnant when you apply, an insurance plan can’t reject you or charge you more because of your pregnancy and even there is no waiting period, once you are enrolled both pregnancy and childbirth are covered from the day plan starts.

Conclusion: I hope you understand about Pre Existing Conditions,List of Pre Existing Conditions, Affordable Care Act or Obama Care,American Health Care Act or Trump Care,Better Care Reconciliation Act and Is a pregnancy Covered or not in United States.

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