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Nancy Pelosi: “The preexisting condition and the lifetime or annual limits…”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

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Published | Video Starts at 45:23

Being a woman, being a pre existing medical condition, women were paying 50% more. We can't have a situation where we have a limit on what insurance companies pay, whether it's annual or lifetime. And The preexisting condition and the lifetime or annual limits were the biggest, shall we say, threshold to cross. because we had, well, we had, insurance industry had all of the, shall we say, vested interest fighting against us, but it was really a fight. (45:23–45:32)

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Asserts that eliminating preexisting condition exclusions and lifetime/annual limits were major challenges.

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