Is COVID-19 a Pre-Existing Condition?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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With worries about the Affordable Care Act looming over Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, an expert gives us a refresher on the landmark health law—and answers questions about what it would mean to lose the law during the pandemic. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Catherine.
0:05.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:07.0	It's okay.
0:08.0	How are you?
0:09.0	Is it...
0:10.0	Uh, I'm good today.
0:12.0	Today I feel pretty good. You know what the correct answer to that
0:15.8	question is I recently learned from reading the Atlantic? Not too bad. Not too bad.
0:22.0	And that's apparently always the right answer and you can just sort of
0:26.7	inflect it differently depending on you know if you're acknowledging some
0:31.8	really hard times or it can be like everything's
0:35.0	perfectly fine you can mean anything. Oh my God it's so good it's an all-purpose
0:39.3	response okay let's try it again. How are you doing, Jim? Not too bad. How about you, Catherine?
0:47.0	Yeah, then you ask me.
0:48.0	How are you, Catherine? You know, not too bad. Hmm.
0:53.0	Hmm. Okay, great.
0:55.0	Well, thank you to James Parker, an ode to Small Talk in the October 2020 issue of the Atlantic
0:59.6	magazine for that tip.
1:02.0	Okay, good luck. um well let's get to it I've got uh I've got questions
1:08.0	uh a listener named James is this you Jim
1:12.0	nope did you write in?
1:13.0	No.
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