The federally subsidized Pre-Existing Insurance Plan (PCIP) authorized and funded by the Affordable Care Act will stop accepting new applications as of March 2, 2013.
Post related to pre-existing conditions and health insurance coverage.
Pre-existing Conditions: From Decline to Rate Increase
For this pre-existing plate he will automatically have a rate increase of at least 10% over standard rates on an individual plan for life.
Pre Existing Insurance Condition Plan is a Failure?
It was not their fault that they are cancer survivors or have a chronic illness that is managed. The people I have helped enroll in PCIP own small businesses and get up and work everyday.
Can you tell your neighbors they are not worthy of health insurance?
The worst part of my job is telling people that the insurance company has determined that they are an unacceptable risk and they have been declined for a health insurance policy.
Pre-existing medical condition? Not my problem? Don’t get old!
We all contribute to social security and medicare..whether were 18 or 25 or 55. We all will be consumers of health care…why would we exclude anybody from the responsibility of taking care of our collective health?
Lower PCIP Rates
Kathy RobertsonSenior Staff Writer For The Sacramento Business Journal reports: A subsidized state health insurance program for individuals with preexisting conditions has lowered premiums an average of 18 percent, effective immediately. That means a 40-year-old Sacramento resident with heart disease will pay $289 per month instead of $332. A 60-year-old with a preexisting health condition […]
