On Democrats’ latest bogus health care claim that Republicans want to take away health insurance protections for people with #PreExistingConditions:
In '96, Republicans controlled the House & Senate & passed the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act, ultimately signed into law. It “strictly limit[ed] the ability of insurance companies to deny coverage to Americans with preexisting conditions," per @WashingtonPost.
Way back in 2009, Republicans proposed a health care plan “to guarantee all Americans, regardless of pre-existing conditions or past illnesses, have access to affordable coverage.”
When Democrats presented the framework of Obamacare in September 2009, the Republican response laid out “four important areas where we can agree.” The very first one was that “All individuals should have access to coverage, regardless of pre-existing conditions.”
Republicans supported these protections then & continue to support them now. The reason Democrats are claiming otherwise & trying to rewrite history is simple. They’re trying to protect the status quo created by Obamacare & set the stage for a single payer health care system.
The fact is, Democrats are using the nine pages of Obamacare that deal with pre-existing conditions—just nine pages!—to defend the entire law. All 961 pages of it.
That’s silly. We don’t have to protect Obamacare to protect people with pre-existing conditions. Americans don’t have to be stuck forever with high deductibles, eye-popping premiums, and fewer choices.
Check out my op-ed published by @CNN to learn more: cnn.com/2018/10/31/opi…
Check out my op-ed published by @CNN to learn more: cnn.com/2018/10/31/opi…
