Verb (used with object) : primitive artifacts that preexisted sophisticated tools. From Dictionary.com.
FOREMAN: A broken wrist they called a preexisting condition?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009] Reference
Yet, you can't get individual full coverage health insurance, because you have this so-called preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009] Reference
Pregnancy's not called a preexisting condition, and that women don't get dropped when they need the care that they've been paying for. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
GUPTA: But that's a big gamble especially for anyone who has what's called a preexisting condition like cancer or heart disease or diabetes or asthma. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008] Reference
That would mean no more denying coverage to people like women we heard from today because of so-called preexisting conditions like having survived cancer. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Obama And Jill Biden Speak Out, Wear Pink For Breast Cancer Awareness (PHOTOS)] Reference
They had what the insurers call a preexisting condition, meaning that if they wanted to have their health insurance, they had to stay in the job they were in. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Speech On The Economy] Reference
Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called a preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Health Plan Conclusion And Presidents Speech Of Sept 2] Reference
Millions more are locked into the jobs they have now just because they or someone in their family has once been sick and they have what is called the preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [Presidents Address To Joint Session As Delivered] Reference
They ignored the issue as well as the others such as preexisting conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rockefeller: ‘The health insurance industry is the shark that sits right below the water.’] Reference
You know, what kind of preexisting conditions could lead to a post - operative death like this?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2007] Reference
The benefit is to protect you from certain insurance practices such as preexisting conditions, recissions, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’] Reference
The sad reality is that many people, maybe even half of all Americans, have some kind of preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008] Reference
MS. MYERS: I don't want to say "preexisting," but we will act within the mandate of the U.N. Q But will not necessarily. From Wordnik.com. [Am Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers] Reference
See, when you already have health insurance, there is no such thing as a "preexisting" condition. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
You can't even have a "preexisting" condition if they discourage you from going to the doctor when you have symptoms. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
The findings held true even after researchers took into account confounding factors such as preexisting diabetes or maternal age. From Wordnik.com. [Emaxhealth] Reference
I am a man who would NEVER knowingly sleep with a married woman or with a woman who is in any kind of preexisting committed relationship. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
4) Full access to the best education, and healthcare available, without any economic, racial, gender, or "preexisting" - discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [Is Barack Obama a Socialist. or simply a centrist with integrity?] Reference
What to do if you (or your child) have a preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [Latest product and safety news for families - June 2010 Consumer Reports] Reference
If you have a preexisting condition, you could be denied or charged more. From Wordnik.com. [How you’d shop for insurance after health-care reform] Reference
Health care: Eliminating preexisting conditions and caps -- that was huge. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's top disability adviser on ADA's 20th anniversary] Reference
No one is denied coverage for switching jobs or having a preexisting condition. From Wordnik.com. [The National Health Care Phobia] Reference
Rules preventing insurers from discriminating based on preexisting conditions are popular. From Wordnik.com. [GOP should rethink opposition to health care's cost-control board] Reference
You know, I have a preexisting condition, my quadriplegia, and I can't get health insurance. From Wordnik.com. [Songs Of Survival And Reflection: 'At The Cut'] Reference
The pools are to run until 2014 when insurers will have to drop their preexisting conditions limits. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia Won't Establish High-Risk Insurance Pools] Reference
The basic idea behind Brown's bill is that state aid should be funded using preexisting stimulus dollars. From Wordnik.com. [What do Republicans believe on state aid?] Reference
And many older adults, as was found last year, seem to have some preexisting immunity from a similar virus long ago. From Wordnik.com. [A pandemic ends, but there may be an H1N1 encore] Reference
People with AIDS, cancer or other preexisting illness: Under reform, insurance plans will be required to accept all who apply. From Wordnik.com. [Down To Brass Tacks] Reference
Roommates who find each other on URoomSurf can mutually request to live together like anyone else with a preexisting friendship. From Wordnik.com. [No More New Kid on Campus] Reference
In the civil-rights bills, the principle was no discrimination on the basis of an unavoidable, preexisting "condition" like race. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care as a Civil Right] Reference
On health insurance, we may choose to override some risk adjustments (say, for preexisting medical conditions) for public policy reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Health 'Reform' That Burdens Our Young] Reference
Unlike this summer's other blockbusters, "XXX" (opening Aug. 9) doesn't derive from a preexisting movie, a comic book or a Saturday-morning cartoon. From Wordnik.com. ['Xxx' Threat] Reference
Is there a certain gamesmanship to opening a 24,000-square-foot M&M's World directly across from a preexisting — and much smaller — Hershey store?. From Wordnik.com. [Candy Clash] Reference
Another should be a ban on "adverse risk selection," under which insurers bar coverage for preexisting conditions or drop policyholders who become gravely ill. From Wordnik.com. [FACING THE POWERS THAT BE] Reference
Since all versions of the pending bill ban discrimination by insurance companies against people with preexisting conditions, that provision isn't controversial. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care as a Civil Right] Reference
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