From The Hill’s Jessie Hellmann: “Thirty-two of the 49 GOP incumbents in races deemed competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report have backed congressional measures on pre-existing conditions in the past six weeks, according to an analysis by The Hill. … Of the 23 Republican incumbents who are considered to be most in danger of losing their seat, according to Cook Political Report, 18 co-sponsored at least one of the resolutions or bills since September.”
The Republican scramble to support such patient protection legislation — even though the resolutions and bills in question reportedly aren’t expected to advance — represents “a course reversal for members of a party that for years railed against ObamaCare, also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and called for its repeal.” A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 72 percent of Americans said it is “very important” that protections for patients with pre-existing conditions remain law, and 60 percent said that they or someone in their household suffers from such a condition.
