insurance and the affordable care act and every health insurance policy sold in america is subject to the law of the affordable care act. if the supreme court does with the trump administration and republicans are asking it to do, 20 million americans could lose their healthcare coverage, 600,000 of them, tens of millions of americans with pre-existing conditions, including the 5 million in illinois will lose protections the affordable act currently gives them, 6 million americans have been diagnosed with positive results from covid-19. many more sadly, will be diagnosed in the years ahead. they, of course, must answer the question have you ever tested positive for covid-19 and if they answer they will have a pre- existing condition which the insurance company used to jump on to either raise your premiums or deny you coverage and if republicans have their way before the supreme court young adults up to the age of 26 will no longer be able to stand stay on their parent s healt
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of government. created by america s cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. us this week on the communicators as federal trade commission commissioner noah phillips, one of three republicans sitting on that commission. this has been a couple of years you have been on the commission. what kind of work do you do? commissioner phillips: we do a lot of really exciting work. twomission is divided into pieces. competition, antitrust law, and consumer protection, which covers a wide swath of territory . both of those areas put us squarely in the middle of a lot of interesting changes our society is going through and technologies, which all of us are dealing with and many of us are using. and teliknology medications have become a bigger part of your portfolio, haven t they? commissioner phillips: to some extent, yes because to some extent telecommunications are much more the purview of the fcc, but with respect to privacy
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