Pre-existing condition protections still in the GOP's crosshairs

[Bullseye]

We waited ten years for them to cough up that legislation. And it would've been a disaster for people with health conditions.

Trump mentioned PEC at the SOTU last night. Got anything else?

 

[Greenbeard]

Trump mentioned PEC at the SOTU last night. Got anything else?

Trump didn’t mention that he’s in court trying to strip those people of their coverage.

 

[Greenbeard]

In that vein, Sylvia Garcia used some of her time during yesterday's Judiciary Committee hearing with the acting AG to ask if Trump's SOTU lip-service to people with pre-existing conditions meant the administration was going to stop going after pre-existing condition protections in the courts.

GARCIA: All right, one last question since I'm running out of time. At the State Of The Union, the President said that he was going to make -- and I'm paraphrasing -- a -- a priority to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions were protected.

Does that mean that you're going to drop all of the ACA litigation that you're involved in?

WHITAKER: As you know, Congresswoman, that -- the Affordable Care Act litigation is ongoing, it's in ...

GARCIA: Well I know that, the question is are you going to be willing to settle it or are you going to be able to -- to drop some of that since the President is changing priorities and direction for his Department of Justice?

NADLER: The time of the gentlelady has expired, the witness may answer the question.

WHITAKER: We have a unitary executive and if -- and if the President sets a policy and issues a policy directive, we will follow that policy.

GARCIA: Thank you.

I guess we'll just have to wait for the White House to make protecting people with pre-existing conditions its policy. Don't hold your breath.