HealthLeaders Media October 9, 2019
The updated analysis comes as a federal appeals court weighs the future of the Affordable Care Act.
Almost 54 million people – or 27% of all adults under 65 —have pre-existing conditions that would have made them uninsurable in the individual markets that existed in most states before the Affordable Care Act, an updated analysis by Kaiser Family Foundation shows.
The rate of declinable pre-existing conditions among adults varies significantly from state to state, ranging from 37% in West Virginia, to 22% in Colorado, the analysis shows.
Forty-four percent of adults ages 55-64 were more likely to have pre-existing conditions, more than double the rate of adults ages 18-34 (18%). Women (30%) are more likely than men (24%) to have...