The new Democratic plan to protect preexisting conditions ahead of the 2018 midterms
Source: vox.com
Tammy Baldwin is leading an effort to protect coverage for preexisting conditions ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
By Dylan Scott@dylanlscottdylan.scott@vox.com Updated Aug 29, 2018, 8:15am EDT
Senate Democrats are preparing a long-shot procedural maneuver to reverse new Trump administration regulations that they say would sabotage the Affordable Care Act by expanding “junk” insurance that isn’t obligated to cover preexisting conditions.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is leading the effort, introducing a resolution to unwind the Trump administration’s expansion of short-term insurance plans. Those plans are not subject to Obamacare’s rules for preexisting conditions or essential health benefits and Democrats dismiss them as “junk.”
“It is sabotage, in my mind, against the guarantees for preexisting conditions,” Baldwin told me and other reporters on Tuesday. “These policies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.”
Baldwin is doing so under the purview of the Congressional Review Act, which gives Congress the ability to reverse federal regulations within a certain time window. The odds of Baldwin’s resolution bearing fruit are long: The House would have to pass the same resolution, and President Donald Trump would have to sign a measure unwinding his own administration’s agenda or there would need to be a veto-proof majority.
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Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/29/17792588/tammy-baldwin-preexisting-conditions-trump-short-term-insurance
Go Tammy.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) wants to reverse Trump’s expansion of short-term insurance plans. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
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