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FW: Ask Representative Braun: Do You Think Covering Pre-existing Conditions Is Unconstitutional?

** Similar releases were sent to Arizona, Florida, Nevada, North Dakota, and Ohio **

It’s been four days since the GOP launched their latest effort to remove coverage for pre-existing conditions, but Representative Braun is still refusing to speak out against it. Now Braun’s position is being denounced by leading independent, nonpartisan health care organizations who call his health care proposal “devastating,” saying it will “cause rates to go even higher.”

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The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society called this decision “devastating for the millions of Americans who suffer from serious illnesses or have pre-existing conditions and rely on those protections under current law to obtain life-saving health care.”

American Psychiatric Association: “This decision could lead to insurers denying coverage to the 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions. This is harmful to the health of these Americans and is very short-sighted considering the nation is in the midst of an opioid epidemic and 30% rise in suicide rates.”

America’s Health Insurance Plans: “Removing those provisions will result in renewed uncertainty in the individual market, create a patchwork of requirements in the states, cause rates to go even higher for older Americans and sicker patients, and make it challenging to introduce products and rates for 2019.”

From Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman David Bergstein: “Devastating and expensive – that’s how leading independent health care organizations are describing Representative Braun’s latest effort to end coverage for pre-existing conditions. It was bad enough when Braun backed the GOP’s earlier plan to slash coverage for pre-existing conditions, impose an age tax on older Americans, and spike premiums – his refusal to speak out now is the latest reminder he’s on the wrong side of Indiana voters.”

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Ask Representative Braun: Do You Think Covering Pre-existing Conditions Is Unconstitutional?

Following the Administration’s latest extraordinary effort to undermine Americans’ ability to get quality, affordable health care by declaring coverage for pre-existing conditions to be unconstitutional, DSCC spokesman David Bergstein released the following challenge:

“It’s a simple question: Does Representative Braun agree that requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions is unconstitutional?  Because Hoosiers don’t.”

Representative Braun is already on the record backing the GOP’s health care agenda that would slash coverage for pre-existing conditions, spike premiums, and impose an age tax on older Americans.

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