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Health Insurance – How your Asthma can affect your Coverage
by Sean Johnson Posted: Saturday, 6/25/2011
Health insurance will first rule out pre-existing conditions in most cases, which means that applying for insurance after being diagnosed will likely cause you to lose benefits for your asthma treatment. Of course, some health insurance companies will also avoid helping pay for asthma treatment even when you are diagnosed after becoming insured because this is an ongoing expense that they have to deal with. Asthma is a disease of the lungs that is usually chronic, but also reversible. The most common treatment of asthma is the use of an albuterol inhaler, which can easily be obtained through a prescription from a family doctor.