Millions Could Lose Health Care At The Supreme Court. Meet 6 Of Them.

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Affordable Care Act returns to the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the third time as Republicans continue their efforts to get the judiciary to do what the party has failed to do politically: Kill Obamacare. “We are scared to death as to what’s going to happen with the Supreme Court.” In addition to anxiety about the ACA disappearing, Buckholt fears for a future in which her daughters’ preexisting conditions make it impossible to get coverage. Job-based health insurance plans usually don’t screen for preexisting conditions, but the insurers routinely denied coverage to people based on their medical histories in the individual market before the ACA. “To have a company that will battle someone while they’re going through a life-or-death illness and still need care.” “If I needed another heart procedure all of a sudden and I was on one of those plans again, I’d be very scared,” said Blackshear, who currently is covered by a policy from the ACA’s exchange. “There’s millions of people who are in these situations, watching a television, hoping that people far away will make a decision that will help them in their lives.” Chelsia Rice, Helena, Montana Chelsia Rice, 43, survived a rare form of bladder cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, thanks to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota ― and no thanks to the pre-ACA health insurance industry.