I have a post pending at healthinsurance.org elaborating on this Twitter thread, which now does double duty as placeholder:
"I said they have to cover all pre-existing conditions. I didn't say they couldn't charge tens of thousands of dollars per policy to cover some." https://t.co/YLGVeUuWdC
— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
It suits Republicans to focus healthcare battle on "pre-existing conditions" because that's something they can lie about/fake fixing. The massive cuts to Medicaid and ACA marketplace subsidies they attempted get lost in the sauce.— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
So passion over "pre-existing conditions" is largely precluding, by bipartisan consent, debate over whether the federal government should cut $1 trillion/ten years (or more) in healthcare spending, which they're essentially promising to do.— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
Maybe it makes sense for Democrats to keep the fight on these grounds. There's 90% support for pre-ex protections, and voters trust Dems more on this.— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
Even in a deep red state like West Virginia, why can't Manchin say "Morrisey wants to take away your 'medical card'? It's true https://t.co/FMspvDUrHM— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
If Republicans had passed the original ACA repeal bill, the AHCA, they would have maintained the ACA's protections for people with pre-existing conditions and still uninsured 24 million people by CBO estimate.— xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid) September 24, 2018
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