The preexisting condition rule places crippling limits on the ability of insurers to create policies based on their best assessment of risk.

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So the idea is you combine a rule that eliminates preexisting condition exclusions with mandatory health insurance, just like auto insurance is mandatory.

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Mr Chirac's condition would also rule out a president from Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and all ten new member states. (That would put paid to the putative candidacies of Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, and his countryman Pat Cox, the outgoing president of the European Parliament.) The row over the presidency threatens to distract from finalising the constitutional text itself.

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Mr. Cuccinelli said the ruling, if upheld, would nullify the pre-existing condition requirement, and the rule that insurers must charge all consumers similar prices.

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The other would change the six-month rule to a more flexible standard based on the patient's condition.

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"We have no specific reason to think there is anything more to Larry's condition, but we find it odd that the company would already rule him out of the 2Q call which is likely still a few weeks away, " wrote JP Morgan stock analyst Doug Anmuth in a note to clients.

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