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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 10:25 AM Oct 2018

Here's a list of every vulnerable House Republican who voted to gut pre-existing conditions coverage

Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are positioning themselves as members of the party that will protect people with pre-existing conditions. But this campaign strategy simply doesn’t match up with their voting record on health care.

“Republicans only will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions,” said President Donald Trump during a campaign rally for Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) over the weekend.

Meanwhile, the truth is Barr voted to weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions five different times since he started representing Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District in 2013. And he’s hardly alone in voting that way.

Of the 73 Republicans in House races deemed competitive by the Cook Political Report, 67 voted at least once to eliminate Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing conditions, according to an analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Fifty-seven Republicans voted more than once to overturn these protections; 31 voted more than six times to overturn these protections; and 24 voted all nine opportunities they had to overturn these protections without replacing them with something comparable.


[link:https://thinkprogress.org/list-vulnerable-house-republicans-gut-pre-existing-conditions-coverage-midterm-elections-c6116ae825f2/|

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Here's a list of every vulnerable House Republican who voted to gut pre-existing conditions coverage (Original Post) Soph0571 Oct 2018 OP
GOTV and kick the traitors to the curb dalton99a Oct 2018 #1
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Oct 2018 #2

malaise

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2. Get thee to the greatest page
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 10:35 AM
Oct 2018

Spread this everywhere to expose these lying scumbags who are deceiving people

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