Q&A: I Have A Pre-Existing Condition, Where Can I Get Health Insurance?
Editor鈥檚 Note:
This聽video, featuring 鈥淚nsuring Your Health鈥 columnist Michelle Andrews, contains out-of-date information for uninsured consumers seeking coverage when they have a medical problem. The video, published March 11, had been taped before the federal government announced in February that聽聽in the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans (PCIP). Those plans, also known as high-risk pools, operate in each state and were established as part of the 2010 federal health law to help provide coverage to people with medical problems who could not get insurance on the private market. The government and the last enrollments were allowed on March 2.
