Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions - NYTimes.com

Republican Health Proposal Would Undermine Coverage for Pre-existing Conditions - NYTimes.com

SHARE By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ April 4, 2017 Throughout the debate to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump and Republican c ongressional leaders have insisted they would retain a crucial, popular part of the health law: the promise that people can buy insurance even if they've had illnesses in the past. Their efforts foundered last month, when a House health bill had to be pulled from the floor after it failed to attract enough support. Late Monday night, word emerged that the White House and the group of conservative lawmakers known as the Freedom Caucus had discussed a proposal to revive the bill. But the proposed changes would effectively cast the Affordable Care Act's pre-existing conditions provision aside. The terms, described by Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and the head of the Freedom Caucus, are something like this : States would have the option to jettison two major parts of the Affordable Care Act's insurance regulations.

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