GOP Fears Trump's War On Pre-Existing Condition Protections Will Backfire Bigly

[workinclasszero]

By Alice Ollstein and Cameron Joseph | June 11, 2018 6:00 am

Republicans were already worried that the nation’s health care woes could sink them in 2018. Now they feel like the Trump administration just tossed them an anvil.

The Department of Justice’s announcement Thursday night that it will take aim at Obamacare’s most popular provisions — a ban on insurance companies discriminating against people based on pre-existing conditions, and limits on how much insurers can hike premiums for older Americans — will be ammunition Democrats can use this November.

The long-shot lawsuit from 20 conservative states, now endorsed by the DOJ, argues that because Republicans repealed the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty as part of their tax overhaul, the mandate itself can no longer be considered a tax — the basis on which the Supreme Court upheld it in 2012. And, the DOJ added, since the ACA’s rules on pre-existing conditions are “closely intertwined” with the mandate, they too must be struck down.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/gop-fears-trumps-war-on-pre-existing-condition-protections-will-backfire-bigly

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I hope it does. It should.

[Iliyah]

2. See, the GOPs are worried about it backfire on "them".

Screw the USA's citizens who will greatly suffer because of it.

Fuck them.

[workinclasszero]

3. Right

Thanks for pointing that out.

[Oneironaut]

4. All Trump needs to do is add an exception that covers most of the places that voted for him.

Republicans love something if it gives them money they don’t need at the expense of people who really need it. They would be perfectly fine with doing away with preexisting conditions protections as long as it doesn’t affect them.

[Zambero]

5. What might not affect them at the moment

will come back to affect them at a later date. At that point, rationalizations will kick in, and Democrats will be held accountable for "allowing it to happen".

[beachbum bob]

6. One of many lies the GOP must defend,

[workinclasszero]

7. This is one of his worst lies to the American public

This affects millions of Trump/GOP voters not just gay folks, PoC and liberuls.

[gratuitous]

8. If only there was some way Democrats could make this a campaign issue for November

But how? HOW???

[workinclasszero]

9. We democrats should be screaming it from the rooftops 24/7

right up to the midterms.

But the MSM will help the GOP bury the story no doubt.