McConnell moves to protect vulnerable Republicans on health care after Schumer's rare effort to forc

[BigmanPigman]

Source: CNN

Republican leaders took steps Wednesday to protect their vulnerable senators ahead of an unusual vote that will put them on the record about whether they support the Trump administration's push to have the Supreme Court strike down the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

The GOP move is a clear response to the rare effort by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to seize the floor and force a vote requiring them to make a choice: Support a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump or side with the law protecting people with pre-existing conditions, which has emerged as a central theme in the battle for control of the Senate and the White House.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell scheduled a procedural vote on a Republican bill -- authored by vulnerable North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis -- that they say would maintain the protections for pre-existing conditions should the Supreme Court toss out the ACA. That would give GOP senators something they can point to as evidence they want to continue those protections and also allow them to vote against and defeat the Democratic bill Thursday.



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Call the Senate [phone] to encourage Dem senators and tell the GOP senators they will not be reelected if they continue with their agenda and fast tracking their SCOTUS pick.

[BootinUp]

1. Just a bullshit bill that would never work I'm sure. Nt

[groundloop]

2. Total bullshit...... there's so much more in the ACA than just this.

In my case I'm planning to begin purchasing insurance on the ACA exchange next year. If GOPers succeed in killing the ACA I'm fucked. But bat-shit-crazy-tRump wants to kill the ACA because Obama and to hell with all the people who depend on it.

Another important provision they're ignoring is the ability to keep adult children on their parents insurance until age 25. That benefited us because it took our son several months to land a 'real job' after graduating from college. Again, tRump and the GOPers don't give a fuck about any of that.

[DallasNE]

3. It Is A Sham Bill

Much like the Executive Order Trump signed to "protect" pre-existing conditions coverage.

There has always been insurance to cover pre-existing conditions. What made ACA different is that the insurance companies could no longer charge a much higher premium for that coverage.

The bill they are proposing is completely meaningless and the Democrats must hit this deception hard so those vulnerable Republican Senators get no coverage from this sham bill.

In fact, ending coverage for pre-existing conditions is at the very heart of Republican efforts to reduce premium amounts for healthy people - the way it was before ACA and why some 20 million people will lose coverage if ACA is struck down -- whether this bill is in place or not. Spend money on TV ads exposing the sham bill Republicans want to pass. Finding out after the election is way too late.

[beachbumbob]

4. unless pre-existing condition coverage is MANDATED IN ALL INSURANCE OFFERINGS,

at NO ADDITIONAL cost, the attempt by McConnel is a worthless venture