The AHA law upheld by the Supreme Court "has improved or saved 4,000 lives" in Texas (truth meter)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/jun/29/becky-moeller/becky-moeller-says-over-4000-texas-lives-have-impr/

Becky Moeller on Thursday, June 28th, 2012 in a statement reacting to the Supreme Court decision upholding the law.


Celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the 2010 federal health care overhaul, a Texas labor leader said thousands of Texans have already benefited from it.

In a June 28, 2012, statement, Becky Moeller, president of the Texas AFL-CIO, said of the new health care law: "It has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans who otherwise would have run afoul of ‘pre-existing condition’ clauses preventing them from obtaining insurance."

The law has helped that many Texans with pre-existing conditions?

Refresher: The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act bars insurers, starting in 2014, from denying coverage to individuals due to pre-existing conditions. Until then, the act also provides for pre-existing condition insurance plans to be available to individuals who have been uninsured for at least six months because of a pre-existing condition, according to a timeline for the law posted online by the federal government. As the act was under debate, advocates said that without such provisions, coverage for people living with certain conditions including diabetes, cancer and HIV/AIDS would remain financially out of reach.



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