I would not sign Graham-Cassidy if it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions...

Real Donald Trump twitter account ^ | September 20, 2017

[ifinnegan]

It keeps the individual mandate.

They should just straight repeal like they pretended they would.

[mrs9x]

No, it does not keep the individual mandate. States can do what they want.

[nickcarraway]

It should do away with any mandate.

[ifinnegan]

“No, it does not keep the individual mandate. States can do what they want.”

Exactly. It keeps the mandate.

[libertylover]

I seems to me that coverage of pre-existing conditions is the worst part of Obamacare. That’s not insurance, it’s welfare.

[ifinnegan]

“It should do away with any mandate.”

Yes. It should explicitly do away with them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

States can do what they want.

That's like your parents giving you an allowance and telling you how you must spend the money.

[Alberta's Child]

It’s not the worst part of Obamacare, but it’s the part that does more to drive up insurance premiums than any other.

[foundedonpurpose]

ifinnegan,
You sir are correct. More fu**ing BS from washington. Trump will or has said this is great. Puke!!

[TheTimeOfMan]

More not winning. But DJT was openly pro big govt. in both healthcare and education during the election.

Oh well.

[iowamark]

Terrible! Trump pandering to the Left.

[foundedonpurpose]

Has anyone actually contemplated a free market health care system. Where the insurance companies are mostly eliminated because costs are so low for basic procedures. There are countries that have like systems. Go to Singapore or Malaysia. US trained doctors, no wait, simple price with the latest technology. Where the heck is the NY Time or the Wa Post on these stories....

[Dacula]

FU

My wife has stage 4 metastatic brain cancer- (carcinoma mitosis)

I have dutifully paid ALL medical bills for the past 8 years. I have worked several jobs in order to provide her with the best care possible.

I will go bankrupt and my wife will die if I cannot provide her with insurance to pay for her care.

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I seems to me that coverage of pre-existing conditions is the worst part of Obamacare. That’s not insurance, it’s welfare.

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[mazda77]

So, if I were to lose my job or get an offer for a job I had my eye on for a long time and was considered healthy in my last physical a year or two ago. Being that health insurance is not portable from one employer to another and they find something in the 3 to six month period I was eligible because of my new hire status . . . I now have a per-existing condition and can’t get insurance even though I was covered the previous 5, 10, 15 or more years before making that change.

[Alberta's Child]

I am adamantly opposed to any requirement for insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, but if you’ve had continuous coverage then I wouldn’t consider your wife’s condition to be “pre-existing” at all.

[FreedomNotSafety]

That is exactamundo! With that tweet Trump agrees with the idea that we will not have insurance for health care. He is saying that he supports health care spending. Having a debate about how much to spend on healthcare is a losing debate. As Trump has said several times, he wants healthcare to cover everyone, and he wants it affordable, and beautiful. Since he is not in favor of insurance then the just leaves the questions of who pays and how much. The answers are taxpayers and a lot.

If you keep allowing the coverage of preexisting conditions then you Arte stuck with a mandate. Sorry, but Trump’s only difference with the Dems is in kind and not principle.

[Alberta's Child]

Those situations should be simple to cover under any reasonable legislation. If you have insurance coverage and change carriers, there are ways to share the costs between the two insurance companies (if it truly is a pre-existing condition) without obligating insurers to cover people who weren't covered previously.

This sort of thing isn't uncommon in other forms of insurance, so it could be done easily through your state insurance regulations.

[FreedomNotSafety]

You can prevent that by keeping continuous coverage. If you do not do that then yes you will have been uninsured and if your condition developed during tat period of not being insured you will have a preexisting condition. That is no different than any other insurance. You cannot insure your house if it is on fire and you cannot insure your car after it has been hit. It is insurance even if that word is preceded by healthcare.