Don't believe Trump when he says it's a "priority" to protect Americans with preexisting conditions

[applegrove]

Don’t believe Trump when he says it’s a “priority” to protect Americans with preexisting conditions

By Sarah Kliff at Vox

https://www.vox.com/2019/2/5/18213104/trump-state-of-the-union-preexisting-conditions

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President Trump used his State of the Union address to lay out a seemingly straightforward health care agenda. He described two major priorities: to lower drug prices and “to protect patients with preexisting conditions.”

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The challengers had an early victory late last year when a Texas judge ruled in their favor, sending the lawsuit up to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Trump’s Department of Justice has sided with these conservative attorneys general. In June, it filed a legal brief in the case asking the judge to strike down Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions.

This was unusual: The federal government typically defends federal law. It usually does not ask a court to overturn it. Because of the Trump administration’s actions, a coalition of liberal attorneys general who support the Affordable Care Act have had to step in and defend the law — playing the role that the federal government typically would.


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[SunSeeker]

1. Not to worry. I don't believe Trump about anything. nt

[duforsure]

2. With him

It'll mean the opposite again. Just watch how he'll have a plan to eliminate them all, and kick more people off of their health care plans, and remember he claimed he wouldn't touch Medicaid , Medicare, and Social Security too then took just under 2 trillion from these plans. He also promised a better health care plan costing less with better coverage, and everyone covered. He lied then too. Millions loss their plans because of him and the GOP while their plan premiums and drug costs skyrocketed, again the opposite of their claims of what they would do.