claim: "up to half of all americans have a pre-existing condition."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: according to a new analysis by the department of health and human services,  50 to 129 million (19 to 50 percent of) non-elderly americans have some type of  pre-existing health condition. up to one in five non-elderly americans with a pre- existing condition – 25 million individuals – is uninsured. under the affordable ...
evidence_2: dec 12, 2016 ... studies have shown that as many as 1 in 2 americans have a health condition  that qualifies as a pre-existing condition. while 1 in 2 is on the ... thus, it is  important for americans to understand that very roughly half of us have a health  condition that technically counts as “a preexisting condition.” fact: the ...
evidence_3: jan 5, 2017 ... americans have pre-existing health conditions: at least 23 percent of americans ( 61 million people) using a ... 2014, the share of americans with pre-existing  conditions who went without health insurance all year fell by ... up to 133 million  non-elderly americans—just over half (51 percent) of the non-elderly.
evidence_4: feb 4, 2011 ... nancy pelosi claims on her website that “health and human services has found  up to half of americans under 65 have preexisting conditions and could lose their  health coverage under repeal.” but it's not true that if the law didn't exist, 129  million persons would all be at risk of losing their insurance, and ...
evidence_5: apr 5, 2017 ... while the previous proposal would have already driven up health care costs and  stripped millions of coverage, the new proposal is rumored to include ... about  half of nonelderly americans have one or more pre-existing health conditions,  according to a recent brief by the u.s. department of health and ...