Sentences with phrase «preexisting conditions losing»

House Speaker Paul Ryan staunchly defended the controversial American Healthcare Act that passed the House of Representatives last week, claiming that allegations about people with preexisting conditions losing insurance are false and that the Democratic Party had engaged in a smear campaign against the bill.

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When Stephanopoulos pointed out that even if the AHCA didn't take away coverage from those with preexisting conditions, it enabled insurers to charge them more, Ryan countered that such provisions wouldn't apply to people who retained continuous coverage — or coverage without any gaps — to which Stephanopoulos noted that people often lose coverage, and its not their personal choice.

It is our basic sense of right and wrong that tells us it is unfair when a cancer - stricken woman is laid off from her job, loses her health insurance, and then can not get it back because of her preexisting condition.

«I look forward to doing all I can to ensure that my unique story of being a 19 - year - old who moved here, came out at 16, who... found out he was HIV positive at 22 years old, who lost his health insurance three weeks later, who couldn't get insurance because of a preexisting condition, who grew up in public housing, who has always struggled to make ends meet here in New York City,» Johnson said during his inaugural address.

And he's got plenty of reason to think so: He lost his arm to a roadside mine on his way home from his second tour in Iraq, and his brother Jimmy (Channing Tatum) can't keep a job because of a lingering leg injury (or, as his apologetic boss puts it, a preexisting condition).

Now, they refuse to pay saying, I had a preexisting condition... They «took care» of my Continental ticket, which I could make open for a fee of 50 bucks, so that I lost it.