The Dems, as usual, never miss an opportunity to allow the Republicans to set up a strawman and answer their own question. Did the Republican bill repealing the ACA contain language requiring insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. Well, yes. Did the bill include a requirement for community ratings so that such individuals would not be charged 10X or 20X times the premiums for others of the same gender or age bracket? No. The insurance companies would have to “offercoverage” which gave the Republicans a political escape route during the campaign but most Dems never challenged them on the cost issue and how meaningless the Republican “protection” was in reality.
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