Senator Mitch McConnell voted again today to defend toxic junk health care plans “so skimpy that they offer no meaningful coverage” — failing a critical “litmus test for anyone who claims to support protecting people with preexisting conditions.” These junk plans are not required to cover pre-existing conditions, prescription drugs, or maternity benefits, and “generally refuse” to provide coverage to people who are pregnant or who have a history of cancer or other diagnoses, yet Senator McConnell just voted again to promote these harmful plans at Kentuckians’ expense.
“Senator McConnell’s support for these reckless junk health plans makes it clear why he has no credibility when it comes to protecting Kentuckians’ health care,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss. “As Majority Leader, McConnell has led the GOP’s toxic efforts to gut health care protections for millions of Americans, and by again throwing his support behind these junk plans, he’s going even further to expose Kentuckians to higher costs, unreliable care, and weaker protections for critical benefits like pre-existing conditions coverage and maternity care.”
In addition to already voting to defend these junk plans, which the American Cancer Society and American Heart Association have vocally opposed, Senator Mitch McConnell has led Republicans’ toxic campaign to tear down the health care law that has expanded coverage protections to hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians with pre-existing conditions, and believes there’s “nothing wrong” with the GOP lawsuit to end pre-existing conditions protections, maternity care, and allowing kids to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26.
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