Trumpcare is so awful that House Republicans are building an escape hatch for themselves
by Alan Pyke at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-lawmakers-exempt-trumpcare-hardships-8f7f8941f9c4
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The broader repeal bill encourages states to abandon Obamacare rules that bar insurers from refusing people with pre-existing conditions and establish a minimum amount of coverage that all health insurance plans must offer. These consumer protections become optional under the deal — exposing House and Senate members and staff to the whims of their home-state governments.
“Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff,” Vox’s Sarah Kliff reports.
If an army did this, we would call it an atrocity.
The man behind the amendment, Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), confirmed the scheme to Kliff.
Freedom Caucus leader Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) has denied that the deal MacArthur brokered includes a carve-out for Congress. But his reported reasoning, based on Washington, D.C.’s non-state status, is incorrect.
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