Republicans running for election or re-election in next month's
election have been getting feedback and even static from their constituents
over the issue of whether they want a government-supported health care plan to
cover pre-existing conditions.
The Affordable Care Act (so-called Obamacare) provides that
the insurance plans offered by private insurers who offer health insurance to
individuals under the Act must cover pre-existing conditions. Republicans have
tried, sixty times, to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something else. The
exact details of the replacement plan have never been made public (as I
understand it), but it is widely believed that it would not require coverage of
pre-existing conditions.
Now we see that this has become a big issue, and Republicans
are getting a lot of pushback over the pre-existing conditions thing. Their response
to this, and their campaign strategy? To claim that they support coverage for
pre-existing conditions and that the Democrats do not.
If this were true, they would simply need to leave Obamacare
alone and not try to repeal it, as they have done 60 times.
Evidently Republican congressional candidates are trying to
copy a strategy so often used by Donald Trump, which I think I can describe as
"Lie to them and they will believe it, 99% of the time." This cynical
approach is based on the belief that the electorate is stupid or at least
incapable of critically examining what is told to them. Unfortunately that
often seems to be true.
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