As Supreme Court Hears Lawsuit to Dismantle Pre-Existing Conditions Protections, Here’s Where Senators Perdue and Loeffler Stand on Health Care

As the Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in the Dangerous Lawsuit to Tear Down the Entire ACA, Perdue and Loeffler’s Toxic Support for That Effort and Their Records Against Georgians’ Health Care Will Be a Political Liability

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in the GOP lawsuit to tear down the Affordable Care Act and erase its protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The lawsuit – which Republicans are pushing even during the middle of a pandemic that left millions of Americans unemployed and without coverage – would also kick an estimated 20 million Americans off their health insurance, end Medicaid expansion for at least 12 million people, and cut other health care benefits while giving the richest 0.1% a massive tax windfall.

In Georgia, where both Republican senators are facing highly competitive runoffs, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler supported the 2017 tax law that set this reckless lawsuit in motion and have embraced the political crusade to repeal the ACA and its protections.

How Senator Perdue and Loeffler have backed this toxic health care lawsuit:

• Senator David Perdue has said “I support the president in his attempt” to strike down the ACA and that he “of course” wants the lawsuit to succeed.

• Senator Kelly Loeffler has backed repealing the ACA and said she supports President Trump’s agenda “100%” – which includes this federal lawsuit backed by the Trump administration.

Both vulnerable incumbents recently rushed to confirm a Supreme Court nominee who has a long track record of hostility to the ACA, putting protections for people with pre-existing conditions at greater risk than ever before. Loeffler and Perdue still have “no plan” to help the millions of Americans who would lose coverage if the health care law is struck down by the Supreme Court.

But the reality is “many voters say protecting pre-existing conditions is their top health concern” and “a majority of Democrats, Independents and Republicans” want to preserve the ACA’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Perdue and Loeffler’s toxic agenda on health care remains a massive “political liability” for these two vulnerable incumbents.

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