A Walking Pre-Existing Condition
That's classic and unremarkable in the annals of rescission, but consider the following. In the neighborhood of 1 in 133 people has celiac disease, whether they know it or not. That number is growing :A recent study compared tissue samples taken from young adults between 1948 and 1954, and recently-collected tissue samples from young adults and from people born in the same years as the earlier tissue samples. It’s 4.5 times more common in young adults now and 4 times more common in people born in the same years as the 1948-1954 samples. And the time between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis is frequently years . During that time, you're basically a walking pre-existing condition.
Even if insurance companies were sharply restricted and could no longer cancel someone's insurance for an unrelated condition, as acne to breast cancer -- even if they could only dump people's insurance if the person had failed to disclose something that turned out to be directly related to a later diagnosis -- this basically says that people with celiac disease are uninsurable. Why? Consider the possible symptoms :
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