I think at the end of the day it’ll depend on how much his opposition to pre-existing condition coverage will hurt him. And it’s still McCaskill. She’s got something up her sleeve waiting for the last week in the campaign. Hawley has to keep on his toes and be ready to respond to whatever she comes up with.
It’s easy to require that all heath insurance have provisions to include existing conditions coverage. The difficult part is figuring out how to pay for it. The Democrats are telling voters that it will be free, the health fairy will pay for it. All you need to do is to vote for Democrats.
We could establish an an existing conditions nationwide pool that could spread the risk and fund it through a national surcharge for all insurance carriers. It wouldn’t be free, but it would be reasonable if spread among all Americans. You can depend that the Democrats will never come up with such a common sense approach.
You do have to give credit to the Democrats for coming up with an issue that will garner votes to their candidates with no intention of solving the problem.