Poll: Public fears lawsuit over pre-existing conditions

Mod: Probably the biggest issue for most folks during the 2018 midterm elections was the scam to deny people their healthcare due to "preexisting conditions." There are others in the works, of course. "Medical noncompliance" is another one making the rounds. Example: You didn't do your exercise so the insurance company doesn't have to pay. Interesting things like that. These people do think about ways to beat you out of your healthcare a lot, you know. And they do own a lot of politicians. Many of whom lie about the issue on an almost daily basis.

Poll: Public fears lawsuit over pre-existing conditions (Axioslink):


Most Americans are worried about the effects of a lawsuit that could gut the Affordable Care Act's protections for pre-existing conditions — probably because most people have a family member with a pre-existing condition, according to an Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.

Why it matters: A ruling in this case is expected any day, and could immediately turn the campaign-season back-and-forth over pre-existing conditions into an acute crisis for millions of people.

By the numbers: A whopping 88% of those surveyed said it's very important or somewhat important to them that the ACA's protections for pre-existing conditions remain law.

74% — including a majority of Republicans— said they're at least somewhat worried about being able to afford health insurance if those protections vanish.

And 67% said someone in their household has a pre-existing condition.

Where it stands: A federal judge in Texas is expected to rule soon in the lawsuit.

Texas and the Republican attorneys general who brought the suit want the judge to throw out the entire health care law.

The Justice Department says three provisions need to fall: the individual mandate, the requirement that insurers cover people with pre-existing conditions, and the ban on charging higher premiums because of a pre-existing condition.

Although President Trump has pledged to restore those protections if they're struck down, neither he nor his party has ever come up with a comprehensive plan to do so.

Mod: Of course Donny Two-Face has an awfully complicated position on the ACA / pre-existing conditions lawsuit. Which he started but is also against. Or so he is saying this week.

Trump's pre-existing conditions promise clashes with ACA lawsuit (Axioslink): President Trump said in an exclusive interview with "Axios on HBO" that he'll reinstate protections for pre-existing conditions if a lawsuit — which his administration supports — guts the Affordable Care Act. But Republicans have never come up with a replacement plan that would offer the same level of protection as the ACA.

Trump also said Attorney General Jeff Sessions didn't give him a heads-up before urging a court to throw out the ACA's provisions on pre-existing conditions. But Sessions has said Trump signed off on the move.

Mod: It's always somebody else's fault with the Big Baby In Chief.

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