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

[left-of-center2012]

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. “This already exists. It’s called the Affordable Care Act and you are trying to overturn it,” tweeted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a progressive and vocal critic of the White House.

The rebukes followed a press conference in New Jersey in which Trump said the move mandating insurers cover all preexisting conditions “has never been done before.”



https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/511177-this-already-exists-democrats-seize-on-trump-executive-order-on-preexisting

[malaise]

1. That is a great tweet

[unblock]

2. donnie announces executive order to require sun to rise in east.

[LizBeth]

3. Didn't Republicans and Ryan (remember him) damage the pre existing? It seems to me like they

did. It seems to me like insurance companies can now say, another test? No, it already showed last year that you have a pre cancer so now you have to pay for the test.

[CatWoman]

4. K; R