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The Cost of Pre-Existing Conditions Just Keeps Climbing

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Chronic illnesses and conditions such as MS and ADHD cost billions, but innovative treatments will go begging unless government funds the research.

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Acne, allergies, anxiety, asthma, depression, ear infections, high cholesterol, hypertension, menstrual irregularities, migraine headaches, being overweight. Sound familiar? These are some of the common pre-existing conditions that private health insurers charged individuals more for before Obamacare put an end to such uneven billing, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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