The right's hypocrisy over ACA

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And how about this for hypocrisy?

Josh Hawley, Missouri attorney general and Republican candidate for Senate, says he wants to protect people with preexisting conditions. Whatever gave you the idea he didn’t? In his own words, from this rather remarkable 30-second spot:

We’ve got two perfect little boys. Just ask their mama.
Earlier this year, we learned our oldest has a rare chronic disease. Preexisting condition. We know what that’s like.
I’m Josh Hawley. I support forcing insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions. And Claire McCaskill knows it.
You deserve a senator who’s driven to fix this mess, not one who’s just trying to hang on to her office. And that’s why I approved this message.

Yet at the same time, Hawley’s name is signed to a legal complaint that would overturn the Affordable Care Act in its entirety — including the Title I protections for preexisting conditions. In fact, Hawley and the 20 states, including Missouri and Texas, that sued to invalidate Obamacare want to go further than the Trump administration. The states argued that the whole law — tax subsidies, Medicaid expansion, the works — must be overturned once the Republican tax bill repealed the law’s individual mandate. (Read more on why legal scholars think this is an especially ridiculous argument.)

”Plaintiffs are entitled to a permanent injunction against defendants from implementing, regulating, or otherwise enforcing any part of the ACA,” their complaint reads in conclusion, “because its requirements are unlawful and not severable from the unconstitutional individual mandate.” The White House has instead said “only” that the rules that bar health insurers from denying people coverage or charging them higher premiums based on their medical history needed to be thrown out. “Only.” But we’re splitting hairs here: The legal position that Hawley is formally supporting right now is that the current federal protections for people with preexisting conditions should be invalidated.

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There is the usual word spaghetti from the candidate's campaign to justify this:

• The ACA isn't the only way to protect patients with existing conditions
  
• The Republican's have proposed a new law which purports to do so.
  

However:

• That proposed law has big loopholes
  
• Fat chance it becomes actual law, big new healthcare laws come once a decade, at most.