Fierce Healthcare October 4, 2019
Robert King

Nearly 54 million people under 65 have a pre-existing condition that would have been declined before the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new analysis.

A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released Friday comes as the fate of the ACA is in doubt while a federal appeals court decides on a constitutional challenge from Texas and several other red states.

KFF found 27% of the U.S. population under 65 years old have a pre-existing condition that would have made them uninsurable before the ACA went online in 2014. The share of adults with such pre-existing conditions varies from state to state.

For instance, 37% of non-elderly adults in West Virginia had a pre-existing condition that could...

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