Obamacare – Pre-Existing Conditions

What to Know: As the new Congress begins to debate changes to the Affordable Care Act, it’s important to remember that the ACA has hurt many American families.

“As the parent of a daughter with cystic fibrosis, I’m learning a thing or two about pre-existing conditions,” writes Mary Vought in the Washington Examiner. “That’s why I find many of the attacks from the Left on the issue so disturbing. House Democrats will use this week’s healthcare vote to claim they are ‘protecting’ individuals with pre-existing conditions — but here’s what they aren’t telling you. Obamacare’s pre-existing conditions ‘protections’ have priced millions of people out of their health coverage. From the first quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2018, approximately 2.5 million people (more than the population of all but three of America’s cities) dropped their Obamacare coverage. During that time, enrollment among people who do not qualify for federal insurance subsidies dropped by nearly 40 percent.”

The TPPF Take: Texas Public Policy Foundation attorneys successfully argued on behalf of individuals harmed by the ACA, in a landmark federal case that declared the entire law unconstitutional.

“The families we represent in the case, which is now in the appeals process, lost their chosen and affordable health coverage, they lost the physicians they knew and trusted, and they lost the power to make their own decisions regarding health care,” says TPPF’s Rob Henneke. “That’s a side of the health care debate that we don’t hear about much, but it’s a very real outcome of the legislation.”

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