GOP senator: Dems pushing 'false narrative' on pre-existing conditions

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/04/18 10:10 AM EST

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday accused Democrats of spreading a "false narrative" that Republicans want to take away health-care protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, even though the GOP has repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"It’s a false narrative for Democrats to come in and say if you elect Republicans we’re going to take that away. We’re doing everything we can… to make sure we protect pre-existing conditions," Tillis, the vice chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday." Tillis cited President Trump's pledge in recent weeks that Republicans will protect coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.

The senator also painted the party's repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which ensures coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, as a necessary, even as President Trump and GOP candidates vow to protect such coverage.

"We want to replace the Affordable Care Act with a program that will work," Tillis said "That will provide people who have pre-existing conditions with health care."

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/414755-gop-senator-accuses-dems-of-pushing-false-narrative-on-republican

[YessirAtsaFact]

1. The lying never stops

Republican lying, that is

[2naSalit]

10. Seems to be their original language...nt

[LBM20]

2. Why post this? Who cares what the R's and Trump say? We already know they lie constantly.

[DonViejo]

4. If you don't recognize the importance of this Senator's comments, please accept...

my sincere condolences

[groundloop]

13. Agreed. It's easier to counter their lies when we know what lies they're telling this week.

When our neighbor says "but repubs say they're going to protect people who have a pre-existing condition when they pass their fabulous healthcare law and get rid of that horrible Obamacare" we can explain that there is no current replacement for the Affordable Care Act anywhere near ready to go, and that the goper controlled House has voted over 70 times to kill the Affordable Care Act (which would by default get rid of protections for people with pre-existing conditions). Then we can remind them that while the Affordable Care Act isn't perfect it's far far better than the wild-west system dominated by the insurance companies we had before. We now can keep our kids on our insurance until they turn 26, we get a yearly wellness checkup at no cost, annual vaccinations are free, there's no longer a limit on lifetime benefits (i.e. insurance companies can't kill you simply because they feel you're costing them too much), and of course you can't be excluded from insurance if you're already sick.

[Bengus81]

17. You don't care what Trump and Republicans say about Dems??

I sure as HELL do and will fight back against their LIES.

[lark]

3. Lying sack of shit.

Reugs have even taken this provision to court arguing it's unconstitutional and now they lie and say they are doing the opposite. In fact there's an ongoing case in TX for exactly that reason. Just like they put huge cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in their budgets but then run ads saying Dems will take away their Medicare. Nope, it's them, always them. They have always opposed healthcare for the masses and will never stop trying to take away every penny of government assistance from the working class/poor and giving it themselves and their oligarch funders.

[beachbum bob]

5. Where is any Gop bill that mandates all insurers to provide such??? None

to be found.

The liars can't help themselves

[beachbum bob]

6. The media enables GOP liars, they prove it every day.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Republican Senate candidate literally took his sick employee's health insurance away

Republican Senate candidate literally took his sick employee's health insurance away

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/2/1809359/-Republican-Senate-candidate-literally-took-his-sick-employee-s-health-insurance-away#read-more

"At Mike Braun's company, I sold RV parts and towing parts. A few months ago, I got really sick, ended up in the hospital.

"So while I was in the hospital, Mike Braun fired me. And backdated my termination. So my insurance had been cancelled. I was devastated, stuck with a $30,000 bill and left with nothing.

"There is no such thing as health care when something happens to you and it gets taken away. And that's what Mike Braun's company did."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=0&v=yaORaMVhqRA

[dawg day]

8. I know what their "P-EC" insurance is like

I was on it before the ACA forced my employer to extend me our group coverage.

"Pre-existing condition" forces you into the "high-risk pool."

Only sick people are in this pool, hence the "high-risk" part.

It was almost $900 a month (and this was 9 years ago), and get this-- it was insurance for other things, but NOT any pre-existing conditions! That is, if I had a heart attack, I might be covered, but for treatment of my P-E C, no coverage. That was how the policy was written. And this was my state's "high-risk" pool, not some scammy insurance by a scammy company.

It was something, at least. I couldn't get insurance at all otherwise. I'd tell the insurance company my condition, and they would politely (but immediately) hang up on me.

This is what the GOP wants to go back to-- putting a huge percentage of Americans into a high-premium policy that excludes the very illnesses that excluded them from private insurance.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. "We want to replace the Affordable Care Act with a program that will work,"

It's just that nine years hasn't been long enough for them to come up with one. Any decade now, they promise.

[Botany]

11. It is not like a bunch of republicans went to the White House and drank beer to celebrate the ...

... killing of Obamacare.

[Takket]

12. They want to replace ACA with nothing.

We will be back to millions going bankrupt for uncovered medical treatment.

[Jimvanhise]

14. PROVIDE WITH HEALTH CARE?

At no time does he or any other Republican say they will provide access to affordable health care. Access to healthcare and access to affordable healthcare are two different things and they think we don't notice the difference.

[Maggiemayhem]

15. The Republican AG of WV is party to a lawsuit to allow insurance companies

to deny coverage for pre existing conditions. The R AG is the Republican nominee to run for US Senate against Manchin.

[keithbvadu2]

16. almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have "insurance for everybody."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/trump-reportedly-insists-healthcare-replacement-will-have-insurance-for-everybody.html


January 16, 2017 Fox News

President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he’s almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have “insurance for everybody."

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The president-elect insisted that his plan for replacing the Affordable Healthcare Act is all but finished, and added that care would have “lower numbers, much lower deductibles.” He went as far to say that he’s ready to reveal it alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

[Bengus81]

18. Trump thinks him and the Rep are going to kill the ACA and then FORCE insurance companies

into covering pre-existing conditions?? Bawhahahhahaaaaaaa!!!


Pffftttt....that's all that will be left is going back to buying insurance directly from the Insurance Industrial Complex. After a divorce I had to get my own insurance in 2011. I got it from BCBS and it carried a TWO YEAR exclusion on what they would consider a pre-existing claim.

[7962]

20. So nothing could come up for the 1st 2 years of the coverage?

Or they would consider it "pre existing"?
Wow, thats ridiculous.
Or am I getting it wrong?

[Bengus81]

22. No...if you broke a leg,arm......

Of course that wouldn't be pre-existing. But try going to the doctor six months later with cancer and see what they'd say. DENIED.......

[7962]

19. EVERY reporter should ask "So where is your bill to do it?"

"Can we read the bill?"
"Why do you say the GOP is protecting them if you cant produce a bill"?

[paleotn]

21. We don't call him crazy Thom for nothing.