{"id":2208,"date":"2020-02-14T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2020-02-14T22:34:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:34:38","slug":"the-biggest-lie-in-trumps-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"The biggest lie in Trump\u2019s State of the Union speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The bad news for people with preexisting conditions is that this \u201cironclad pledge\u201d is a lie. Trump and his administration have fought hard \u2014 in all three branches of government \u2014 to strip people with preexisting health conditions of the protections they enjoy under the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, if Trump has his way, those protections will cease to exist.”
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” In 2018, for example, it handed down a rule expanding the use of short term insurance plans to that do not cover many services, and that may exclude people with preexisting conditions<\/a>.
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The mere existence of these plans can drive up premiums<\/a> for people with expensive preexisting conditions, because these skimpy plans will lure healthy consumers away from more generous plans.”…
“In Congress, meanwhile, Trump supported legislation seeking to repeal Obamacare or drastically water down its protections. One bill backed by Trump, the American Health Care Act<\/a>, would have allowed many insurers to charge higher premiums \u2014 potentially prohibitively high premiums \u2014 to patients with preexisting conditions.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration is currently asking the courts to repeal Obamacare almost in its entirety<\/a>. If the courts ultimately embrace the administration\u2019s position, that will mean that all of Obamacare\u2019s protections for people with preexisting conditions will be struck down.”https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/4\/21123495\/biggest-lie-trump-state-of-the-union-2020-preexisting-conditions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The bad news for people with preexisting conditions is that this \u201cironclad pledge\u201d is a lie. Trump and his administration have fought hard \u2014 in all three branches of government \u2014 to strip people with preexisting health conditions of the protections they enjoy under the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, if Trump has his way, those protections will cease to exist.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

” In 2018, for example, it handed down a rule expanding the use of short term insurance plans to that do not cover many services, and that may exclude people with preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n

The mere existence of these plans can drive up premiums for people with expensive preexisting conditions, because these skimpy plans will lure healthy consumers away from more generous plans.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“In Congress, meanwhile, Trump supported legislation seeking to repeal Obamacare or drastically water down its protections. One bill backed by Trump, the American Health Care Act, would have allowed many insurers to charge higher premiums \u2014 potentially prohibitively high premiums \u2014 to patients with preexisting conditions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is currently asking the courts to repeal Obamacare almost in its entirety. If the courts ultimately embrace the administration\u2019s position, that will mean that all of Obamacare\u2019s protections for people with preexisting conditions will be struck down.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,334,73,442,170],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-preexisting-conditions","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}