GOP senator: Dems pushing 'false narrative' on pre-existing conditions
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/04/18 10:10 AM EST
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that Republicans want to take away health-care protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, even though the GOP has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
"Its a false narrative for Democrats to come in and say if you elect Republicans were going to take that away. Were doing everything we can
to make sure we protect pre-existing conditions," Tillis, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday." Tillis cited President Trump's pledge in recent weeks that Republicans will protect coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.
The senator also painted the party's repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which ensures coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, as a necessary, even as President Trump and GOP candidates vow to protect such coverage.
"We want to replace the Affordable Care Act with a program that will work," Tillis said "That will provide people who have pre-existing conditions with health care."
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/414755-gop-senator-accuses-dems-of-pushing-false-narrative-on-republican
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Republican lying, that is
2naSalit
(86,840 posts)LBM20
(1,580 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)my sincere condolences
groundloop
(11,527 posts)When our neighbor says "but repubs say they're going to protect people who have a pre-existing condition when they pass their fabulous healthcare law and get rid of that horrible Obamacare" we can explain that there is no current replacement for the Affordable Care Act anywhere near ready to go, and that the goper controlled House has voted over 70 times to kill the Affordable Care Act (which would by default get rid of protections for people with pre-existing conditions). Then we can remind them that while the Affordable Care Act isn't perfect it's far far better than the wild-west system dominated by the insurance companies we had before. We now can keep our kids on our insurance until they turn 26, we get a yearly wellness checkup at no cost, annual vaccinations are free, there's no longer a limit on lifetime benefits (i.e. insurance companies can't kill you simply because they feel you're costing them too much), and of course you can't be excluded from insurance if you're already sick.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)I sure as HELL do and will fight back against their LIES.
lark
(23,166 posts)Reugs have even taken this provision to court arguing it's unconstitutional and now they lie and say they are doing the opposite. In fact there's an ongoing case in TX for exactly that reason. Just like they put huge cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in their budgets but then run ads saying Dems will take away their Medicare. Nope, it's them, always them. They have always opposed healthcare for the masses and will never stop trying to take away every penny of government assistance from the working class/poor and giving it themselves and their oligarch funders.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)to be found.
The liars can't help themselves
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)Republican Senate candidate literally took his sick employee's health insurance away
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/2/1809359/-Republican-Senate-candidate-literally-took-his-sick-employee-s-health-insurance-away#read-more
"At Mike Braun's company, I sold RV parts and towing parts. A few months ago, I got really sick, ended up in the hospital.
"So while I was in the hospital, Mike Braun fired me. And backdated my termination. So my insurance had been cancelled. I was devastated, stuck with a $30,000 bill and left with nothing.
"There is no such thing as health care when something happens to you and it gets taken away. And that's what Mike Braun's company did."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=0&v=yaORaMVhqRA
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I was on it before the ACA forced my employer to extend me our group coverage.
"Pre-existing condition" forces you into the "high-risk pool."
Only sick people are in this pool, hence the "high-risk" part.
It was almost $900 a month (and this was 9 years ago), and get this-- it was insurance for other things, but NOT any pre-existing conditions! That is, if I had a heart attack, I might be covered, but for treatment of my P-E C, no coverage. That was how the policy was written. And this was my state's "high-risk" pool, not some scammy insurance by a scammy company.
It was something, at least. I couldn't get insurance at all otherwise. I'd tell the insurance company my condition, and they would politely (but immediately) hang up on me.
This is what the GOP wants to go back to-- putting a huge percentage of Americans into a high-premium policy that excludes the very illnesses that excluded them from private insurance.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,917 posts)It's just that nine years hasn't been long enough for them to come up with one. Any decade now, they promise.
Botany
(70,613 posts)... killing of Obamacare.
Takket
(21,644 posts)We will be back to millions going bankrupt for uncovered medical treatment.
Jimvanhise
(304 posts)At no time does he or any other Republican say they will provide access to affordable health care. Access to healthcare and access to affordable healthcare are two different things and they think we don't notice the difference.
Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)to deny coverage for pre existing conditions. The R AG is the Republican nominee to run for US Senate against Manchin.
keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)January 16, 2017 Fox News
President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that hes almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have insurance for everybody."
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The president-elect insisted that his plan for replacing the Affordable Healthcare Act is all but finished, and added that care would have lower numbers, much lower deductibles. He went as far to say that hes ready to reveal it alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)into covering pre-existing conditions?? Bawhahahhahaaaaaaa!!!
Pffftttt....that's all that will be left is going back to buying insurance directly from the Insurance Industrial Complex. After a divorce I had to get my own insurance in 2011. I got it from BCBS and it carried a TWO YEAR exclusion on what they would consider a pre-existing claim.
7962
(11,841 posts)Or they would consider it "pre existing"?
Wow, thats ridiculous.
Or am I getting it wrong?
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)Of course that wouldn't be pre-existing. But try going to the doctor six months later with cancer and see what they'd say. DENIED.......
7962
(11,841 posts)"Can we read the bill?"
"Why do you say the GOP is protecting them if you cant produce a bill"?