Regardless of the outcome of the 2018 mid-term elections, the majority of Americans want government leaders to keep the Affordable Care Act’s guaranteed issue protections in place for people with pre-existing conditions, reported Kaiser Health News‘s Julie Rovner.

“More than a quarter of adults younger than 65 — about 52 million people — have a pre-existing health condition that likely would have prevented them from purchasing individual health insurance under the pre-ACA rules,” she wrote, citing a Kaiser Family Foundation estimate from 2016.

According to Kaiser’s Health Tracking Poll from earlier this summer, 75 percent of Americans categorized guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions as “very important.”

That result held true for survey participants on either side of the political aisle, noted Rovner; the majority of respondents who identified as Republicans said that they want their elected leaders to act to preserve guaranteed issue protections.

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