Tammy Baldwin: “Health insurers did not have to provide coverage to someone…”

“I wasn't a legal dependent. Then let's fix this. Let's try to get our health insurance. I was then a child with a preexisting health condition. And back then, as we recall, Health insurers did not have to provide coverage to someone with a preexisting condition. There were also annual caps and lifetime caps that didn't provide for people in need, like the coverage that they needed to prevent them from going into bankruptcy.” (12:27–12:35)

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