As a nurse working in a doctor’s office, I dealt with all the health insurance companies to get required authorizations for tests, hospitalizations and medications.

That’s where I heard about pre-existing conditions when frantic patients called our office.

Their husbands had retired and being too young for Medicare the wives were forced to purchase health insurance coverage on their own.

Imagine their shock to be denied coverage or have to purchase a high-risk policy at $700 a month because of their diagnosis. These patients were being treated for hypertension or diabetes well-controlled with medication or abnormal mammograms without diagnosis of cancer.

While Obamacare isn’t perfect, I’m concerned people don’t realize the importance of insurance companies being unable to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions because it has never affected them.

If you have ever had an abnormal test result or been prescribed medication, then you have a pre-existing condition documented on your medical records and that includes the majority of us.

Trump has a lawsuit before the Supreme Court right now to abolish Obamacare without any GOP plan to replace it. Remember in his campaign in 2016 he promised the “greatest ever health care plan” to go into effect on day one of his presidency only to admit later there never was any plan.

If you lose your health insurance coverage doctor’s and hospitals cannot afford to treat you for free, so where does that leave you?

We’ve watched our health care costs skyrocket while benefits declined for years while the CEOs of health insurance companies reaped the profits. If the Supreme Court rules to abolish Obamacare, it will be the detriment of all of us — man, woman and child.

Nancy Nicklas,

Connoquenessing Township