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There is more to pre-existing conditions than trying to get insurance after you're diagnosed.
Pre-existing conditions apply to the portability of existing health care coverage. For instance, if I'm at a job and have employer-provided health care, and I'm there for a long time and am diagnosed with a condition (say, diabetes), as long as I remain with my employer I'm covered. But if I choose to seek a new job with a different employer, I would have to get new health care coverage from my new employer, and my diabetes is now a pre-existing condition to them.
Now consider what happens to someone in this situation who is laid off, and not voluntarily severed?
We need a way for people with a pre-existing condition to not feel tied to their jobs, or afraid of losing the coverage for their condition if they lose their jobs.
This is entirely different from people with no coverage, who seek it after being diagnosed.
-PJ