Before the Affordable Care Act, insurers could practice “health status underwriting” or review health records to assess medical risk,<br />and they could charge higher prices, or even deny coverage, for conditions deemed to be more costly.<br />“The New AHCA Bill Lists Sexual Assault And Domestic Abuse As ‘Pre-Existing Conditions’”<br />Before the Affordable Care Act, several states did not have laws that prohibited insurers from counting domestic violence as a pre-existing condition.<br />Again, this doesn’t mean that the Republican bill gives insurers a free pass to deny coverage<br />because of these conditions, though people who, for example, cannot afford higher costs could lose insurance in states that receive a waiver from community ratings.<br />“Under Trumpcare plan, rape would be considered a pre-existing condition.”<br />The bill does not define rape as a pre-existing condition, and neither did insurers before the Affordable Care Act.
