Quote:For eight years, Democrats have been on the defensive from the official Republican position: Obamacare is bad and needs to be repealed. But this time, Republicans are bearing the burden of unpopular repeal bills that would have left millions of Americans without health insurance. Twenty Republican-led states are suing to overturn the entire health care law, and the Trump administration is joining them to argue that preexisting conditions rules specifically should be struck down.2018 midterms: Republicans mislead voters about preexisting conditions - Vox
To get out of this, Republican candidates are deploying some pretty audacious — and, you could argue, borderline dishonest — spin: We support protecting preexisting conditions too! We still want to repeal Obamacare, of course, we’re Republicans. But in some other, alternative future without Obamacare, we can pass a brand-new health care law that includes the same protections. This argument has a lot of problems.
Republican double speak explained in the article.
- Should they win the court case, safeguards for people with pre-existing conditions is gone, plain and simple.
- Not any of their past proposals to replace Obamacare did safeguard pre-existing conditions.
- Striking down the individual mandate tends to reduce healthy people in the insurance risk pool, increasing cost for insurance companies which they have to recover in some other way (hiking premiums, co-payments, deductibles, limit payments, discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, etc.).