Healthcare: Why preexisting condition coverage matters

If a health insurance company can deny you coverage due to a preexisting condition, then you can count on this: Even if they accept you and you pay your premiums faithfully for decades, the day you become seriously ill and desperately need your benefits, insurance adjusters backed by corporate lawyers will begin combing over every aspect of your health history back to the day you were born.

They will look for any thread of evidence that your illness may be related to some previously treated or even suspected condition.

And if they find that thread, they will pull it, unraveling your entire world.

This story was originally published May 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM with the headline "Healthcare: Why preexisting condition coverage matters."