Yes, you are reading this right. The gun lobby is trying to remove pre-existing condition protection

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It is happening again folks.


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Yes, you are reading this right. The gun lobby is trying to remove pre-existing condition protections.

People need to know.

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Ran Medicare/caid/ACA for Obama. Board Chair, @usofcare. Partner, Town Hall Ventures. @usatoday, columnist. @penn Fellow. My opinions.

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Andy Slavitt
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15h15 hours ago

You know who filed a single brief in favor of eliminating pre-existing conditions?

Citizens United, Downsize DC Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Inc., Conservative Legal Defense & Education Fund.

No offense to these groups, but they don’t have anyone’s health at heart. 5/
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14h14 hours ago

Briefs from hospitals & insurers explain in detail, no matter how you get your health coverage -- exchange, private coverage through your employer, Medicare, or Medicaid -- this frivolous and dangerous lawsuit threatens your care and coverage.6/
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14h14 hours ago

Patient groups understand what’s at risk, per their brief:

“Striking down these provisions would be catastrophic and have dire consequences for many patients with serious illnesses.” 7/
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Economists all report in their brief: “An injunction also would cause enormous disruption and uncertainty for the US health care industry, which constitutes about 20 percent of the US economy.” 8/
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14h14 hours ago

Even 2 leaders of prior legal attacks on the ACA -- Jin Adler & Ilya Somin -- joined @nicholas_bagley & 2 others to call out the absurd legal arguments: “[A] court’s substitution of its own judgment for that of Congress would be an unlawful usurpation of congressional power….”9/
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14h14 hours ago

It should be obvious that this attack that will take coverage from millions and insurability from 10s of millions more has no real grounds but political ones. /end

[cyclonefence]

1. WHY?

"because they're evil" doesn't count.

No fair posting these juicy tidbits without answering the most basic question.

[riversedge]

4. Why is Trump sabotaging ACA? because he is evil. Yes, this reason counts because it is true.

I really do not understand him--and have given up.

[cyclonefence]

5. My question was about the title of your post

Why is the gun lobby interested in killing ACA?

[Liberty Belle]

8. Insurance industry money may be a big part. Anybody following the money?

[pwb]

2. Putins dividing crew.

In other words republicans.

[Hoyt]

3. Gun groups are almost always white wing conservative organization and usually racist and bigoted.

There are a few exceptions, maybe, among small gun groups that bill themselves as "liberal." But most of them -- including Gunowners of America -- have a membership with a high percentage of these folks:

[Initech]

6. Someone want to give these wannabe Rambo tough guy douchebags a war zone they can go to?

[LuckyCharms]

7. They look like they are on their way to a Mensa meeting.