claim: "half of all adults have a pre-existing condition" that could affect their health care coverage.
author: jan schakowsky
evidence_1: young adults have the option of staying as dependents on their parents'  coverage up to the age of 26 if they lack access to job-based insurance on their  own, and insurers ... between 50 and 129 million non-elderly americans have at  least one pre-existing condition that would threaten their access to health care  and health ...
evidence_2: dec 12, 2016 ... estimates of the share of adults with pre-existing conditions. we estimate that  27% of adult americans under the age of 65 have health conditions that would  likely leave them uninsurable if they applied for individual market coverage under  pre-aca underwriting practices that existed in nearly all states.
evidence_3: jan 5, 2017 ... aspe examined the impact of the aca's pre-existing conditions protections.1 ...  2014, the share of americans with pre-existing conditions who went without  health insurance all year fell .... 13 the authors also note that their analysis  excludes certain conditions that likely would have led to coverage denials,.
evidence_4: jan 5, 2017 ... put simply, these groups agree that a repeal could lead to increases in the  number of newly uninsured americans, the number of people facing difficulties  from pre-existing conditions, the size of the federal deficit, and how much money  people will have to pay for their health care. how many more uninsured ...
evidence_5: apr 28, 2017 ... obamacare bans companies from denying health insurance to the 50 million  americans with pre-existing conditions. definitions, and benefits of the ban. ...  those with chronic illnesses can now receive the care they need at a much lower  cost than if they had to pay for it on their own. why would insurance ...