Trump: All Republicans will support people with pre-existing conditions 'after I speak to them'

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President Trump tweeted Thursday that “all Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them.”

Link to tweet

The tweet comes as Republicans are under fire in races across the country for their votes to repeal ObamaCare and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Republicans have been scrambling to show that they do support the protections, and Trump’s tweet is an added point in that effort.

However, Trump’s administration is currently arguing in court that ObamaCare’s pre-existing condition protections should be struck down, a point Democrats were quick to make in response.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/412105-trump-all-republicans-will-support-people-with-pre-existing-conditions

Sure. McChinless wants to cut meidcare but the Dems want to destroy it.

[atreides1]

1. Soon to be listed

As another of his lies...

[Initech]

2. Shut the fuck up Donny!

[Guppy]

3. That might sounds good

but if you are in the individual market the cost of your premium will be so high that for all intents and purposes you will not have insurance. The individual market is punishment.

[kskiska]

4. or else...

what?

[struggle4progress]

5. Got a preexisting condition? Trump wants to deny you coverage (June 2018)

Jun. 8, 2018, 3:00 a.m.
JON HEALEY

In its latest effort to undermine the Affordable Care Act — and in the process, raise premiums for many Americans — the Trump administration is urging a federal judge in Texas to throw out the law’s protections for people with preexisting conditions ...

Its latest gambit came Thursday, when the Justice Department partially endorsed Texas’ latest lawsuit against the ACA. The lawsuit focuses on the Supreme Court’s decision in 2012 that upheld the ACA’s requirement that adult Americans carry insurance or pay a tax penalty, saying it was a valid exercise of Congress’ power to tax. Noting that the GOP tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in December eliminated that tax penalty, the lawsuit argues that the law has been rendered unconstitutional.

The Justice Department’s brief asserts that the mandate to buy insurance is indeed unconstitutional now. That’s no big deal — with no penalty, there’s really no mandate. What is a big deal is the department’s contention that because the mandate is gone, the court must throw out the ACA’s two main protections for people with preexisting conditions: the requirements that insurers accept all applicants (“guaranteed issue”) and that they charge people with preexisting conditions no more than healthy people in the region (“community rating”).

“Congress found that enforcing guaranteed issue and community-rating requirements without an individual mandate would allow individuals to game the system by waiting until they were sick to purchase health insurance, thereby increasing the price of insurance for everyone else — the polar opposite of what Congress sought in enacting the ACA,” the department’s brief argues ...

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-enter-the-fray-got-a-pre-existing-condition-the-trump-1528420144-htmlstory.html

[JHB]

6. Another WH leaker recorded the discussion:

[Doodley]

7. A narcissist will say anything to win.

[mvd]

8. Yet another lie

Guess what those short term health plans he is pushing do - they leave out people with pre-existing conditions!