I was born with a narrowed aortic heart valve, which resulted in a condition called "aortic stenosis". Basically, the main output valve for my heart is considerably narrower than average. My heart must pump harder and faster at rest to adequately supply blood to my body. I can actually feel my heart pounding inside of my chest all of the time, as if I'd been running full sprint. When I exercise, insufficient oxygen supply means I find myself out of breath (and sometimes fainting) quite often. Any hope for athletics or a military career are essentially nonexistent.

This could be completely fixed, if I could afford surgery to have the valve replaced. Unfortunately, no health insurance company will cover this operation unless I can prove that the condition has deteriorated to the point that it is life-threatening. So because this completely-curable condition isn't immediately killing me, I must wait until I'm on death's doorstep before any insurance companies will (probably begrudgingly and with a million clauses and qualifiers) let me have my life back. That is how healthcare works in America.

Fuck this guy. I hope the AI he approved to help determine who qualifies for coverage denied his bullet wound as a "pre-existing condition".