JD Vance signals new health care coverage troubles for those with pre-existing conditions

If you think Americans with pre-existing conditions should pay more for coverage, you'll love the Trump/Vance approach to health care "reform."…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/vance-signals-new-troubles-preexisting-conditions-rcna171442

Vance proposes high-risk pools for people with preexisting conditions

"When you only have sick people in one separated pool, those premium costs are going to be extremely high, unless they are subsidized, or unless the benefits are really skimpy," said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown's Center on Health Insurance Reforms. 

"Unless you're willing to throw a lot of taxpayer dollars to subsidize these high-risk pools, they are high-priced, crappy ghettos for people with preexisting conditions," she said. 

 Still, conservatives pushed the idea as a replacement for what they said was ObamaCare's "one size fits all" mandate that established a single risk pool for everyone…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4882811-vance-health-insurance-high-risk-pools/

Why Trump Has No Real Health-Care Plan - The Atlantic

Republicans Are Trapped on Preexisting Conditions....

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/why-trump-has-no-real-health-care-plan/616523/

What's at stake if the Supreme Court rules against ObamaCare | TheHill

Just one week after the Nov. 3 elections, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a lawsuit backed by President Trump that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ....While the ACA's fate is still uncertain — many legal experts in both parties think the lawsuit’s arguments are so weak that even conservative justices would uphold the law — the consequences of it being struck down would reverberate through almost every corner of the health care system.....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/518639-whats-at-stake-if-the-supreme-rules-against-obamacare

Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: 'It's not worth the paper its signed on' | TheHill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday took aim at an executive order from President Trump which he has claimed will ensure coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. “President Trump’s bogus executive order on pre-existing conditions isn’t worth the paper it’s signed on. It is an insult to every family with someone with a pre-existing condition that President Trump thinks he can get away with this farce while he races a justice onto the Supreme Court to strike down the lifesaving protections enshrined into law by the Affordable Care Act,” Pelosi said in a statement.....
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/518134-pelosi-slams-trump-executive-order-on-preexisting-conditions-its-not-worth-the

Trump squirms in TV spotlight as voters pin him down on Covid, health and race

The president stepped outside his Fox News bubble on Tuesday night – and endured a barrage of criticism he couldn’t bat back
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/trump-tv-town-hall-coronavirus-race-abc-news

The Most Craven Lie on Night 3 of the RNC Came from Kayleigh McEnany – Mother Jones

Wednesday night, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany went on prime time TV during the third night of the Republican National Convention and told what might be one of the biggest lies of the evening. President Trump, she said, “stands by Americans with preexisting conditions.” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/the-most-craven-lie-on-night-3-of-the-rnc-came-from-kayleigh-mcenany/

Donald Trump Is Rewriting History On Preexisting Conditions -- Again | HuffPost

It’s a sign that health care has become political poison for the GOP. Democrats want to keep it that way.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-mcsally-perdue-pre-existing-conditions_n_5f36fca0c5b65bbd8c8d3478

Trump considering order on pre-existing condition protections, which already exist - Axios

President Trump announced on Friday he will pursue an executive order requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, something that is already law. https://www.axios.com/trump-executive-order-insurance-preexisting-conditions-6482b96a-e9fe-4efe-8d40-141d1adee730.html

'This already exists': Democrats seize on potential Trump executive order on preexisting conditions | TheHill

Democrats pounced on President Trump’s announcement Friday that he may sign an executive order to require that health insurers cover all preexisting conditions, claiming that the president is trying to run under accomplishments from the Obama administration. Critical lawmakers were quick to point out that such protections for preexisting conditions were already implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama administration’s signature health care law that Trump and Republicans are currently trying to repeal.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511177-this-already-exists-democrats-seize-on-trump-executive-order-on-preexisting

GOP senators in close races mislead on preexisting conditions - The Washington Post

The president’s doublespeak — voicing support for these protections while asking the Supreme Court to strike them down — is spreading into some battleground Senate races this year. It’s a classic case of buyer beware: Look under the hood of what Daines, Gardner and McSally are selling, and you’ll find a car without an engine. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/15/gop-senators-close-races-mislead-preexisting-conditions/

Bottomless Pinocchio: Trump’s claim that he will ‘always’ protect those with preexisting conditions - The Washington Post

Just as the number of weekly coronavirus cases reached a new high in the United States, the Trump administration filed a legal brief asking the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. About 20 million people covered through the act could lose their health insurance if Trump succeeds, among many other consequences bearing directly on the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/29/bottomless-pinocchio-trumps-claim-that-he-will-always-protect-those-with-preexisting-conditions/

Trump’s prepared speech included a guarantee to protect preexisting conditions. He didn’t say it - The Washington Post

Many of the other changes Trump made involved adding hyperbole....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/05/trumps-prepared-speech-included-guarantee-protect-preexisting-conditions-he-didnt-say-it/

Paul Krugman: Trump is ‘flat-out’ lying about saving coverage for preexisting conditions — and still wants to kick millions off health care – Raw Story

Monday on Twitter, President Donald Trump made the absurd claim that he “was the person who saved” protection for “preexisting conditions in your health care” and declared, “I will always protect your preexisting conditions, the Dems will not.” Economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column, denounces Trump’s claim as a bald-faced lie and stresses that if he has his way, millions of Americans who suffer from preexisting health conditions will find themselves without health insurance.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/paul-krugman-trump-is-flat-out-lying-about-saving-coverage-for-preexisting-conditions-and-still-wants-to-kick-millions-off-health-care/

Trump, who is trying to end Obamacare's preexisting-condition protections, claims to have saved them.

Michael Bloomberg has been filling up the airwaves with campaign ads reminding voters that Donald Trump attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including its incredibly popular protections for patients with preexisting health conditions. The spots must have been getting under our president’s skin, because on Monday he responded with a brief and surreal flight of fabulism on Twitter. Behold: ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/trump-who-is-trying-to-end-obamacares-preexisting-condition-protections-claims-to-have-saved-them.html

Some of Trump’s Most Devious Lies Are About Health Care - NYTimes

What the administration says it’s doing and what it’s actually doing on health care are worlds apart. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/opinion/trump-healthcare.html

Senate Democrats to turn the screws on GOP over protecting people with pre-existing conditions

One of the Trump administration's efforts to sabotage Obamacare hasn't worked out the way the Trumpers planned it, but that's not stopping Senate Democrats from forcing Republicans to take a vote on it. Last year, the administration issued a rule that states could allow the subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to be used to purchase cut-rate insurance that, among other things, doesn't protect people who have pre-existing conditions from being denied coverage. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats are going to force a vote on a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the rule.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/10/29/1895899/-Senate-Democrats-to-turn-the-screw-on-GOP-over-protecting-people-with-pre-existing-conditions

Democrats to force vote on Trump health care rule - The Hill

Senate Democrats took action this week that will force a floor vote on a Trump administration rule that loosens ObamaCare waiver restrictions.....
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/463279-democrats-to-force-vote-on-trump-health-care-rule

Is John Cornyn living in a parallel universe or is he a pathological liar? - Daily Kos

Pathological lying has worked for Donald Trump, so apparently it's the new norm for the Republican Party. Consider Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, never among the bright lights of that august body, but really stepping in it today. He responded to a tweet from Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, that pointed out that Republicans keep trying to take the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with pre-existing conditions away. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/29/1875196/-Is-John-Cornyn-living-in-a-parallel-universe-or-is-he-a-pathological-liar

Fox News launders Trump’s most brazen lie - The Washington Post: Opinion

Democrats, according to the president, failed on the preexisting-conditions front, whereas Republicans conquered it. Fox News took it live.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/18/fox-news-launders-trumps-most-brazen-lie/