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As Republicans Try to Run From Their Toxic Health Care Record, Trump Touts GOP’s Lawsuit to Gut Pre-Existing Conditions Protections

At his rally in Orlando last night, President Trump asked “how many people are happy” that Republicans “erased” key parts of the Affordable Care Act as part of their reckless tax giveaway — which laid the foundation for the dangerous Trump-administration backed lawsuit that threatens to spike health care costs and gut protections for pre-existing conditions coverage. But there’s one group of people who definitely aren’t happy: vulnerable Republican Senators. After spending years voting to increase costs and cut back on key protections, they are now scrambling to distance themselves from their toxic health care record.

Health care remains a top issue for voters, and a losing issue for spineless Senate Republicans, who “have no credibility” as they refuse to take a stand against their party’s dangerous health care lawsuit. The DSCC has rundigital ads holding Senate Republicans accountable for their shameful silence on this critical issue.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Washington Post: The Health 202: Trump wants a new Obamacare repeal plan. His administration is trying to talk him out of it.

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

Key Points:

  • President Trump wants to ride to reelection on an Obamacare repeal-and-replace train – even though that train hit a dead end two years ago.
  • Trump refrained from promising Obamacare repeal last night, even though he’s pushed behind the scenes for a fresh plan to do just that.
  • Health care is indeed a key topic voters want to hear discussed in next week’s presidential debates, per a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll. When respondents were asked open-ended questions about what specific topics they want addressed, they most often mentioned the high cost of care. And Democrats believe health care access and costs will be key to the 2020 battle for the White House just as they were in the 2018 midterms.
  • Yet repealing and replacing the ACA is a goal Trump is having trouble surrendering…

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