The Preexisting Conditions Debate Isn’t Over
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said that all of the congressional Republican health care plans had “covered preexisting conditions,” while Sen. Bernie Sanders said President Donald Trump’s idea for health care is “doing away with the protections that the ACA has for preexisting conditions.”
The GOP health care plans, debated in 2017, offered some preexisting condition protections, but they were not as comprehensive as those in the Affordable Care Act.
Mulvaney and Sanders made their comments on Sunday political TV talk shows in reaction to questions about the Trump administration’s to ask federal courts to find the ACA unconstitutional and nullify the entire law. The administration has now fully sided.
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