House Democrats may have a hard time defending the Affordable Care Act, and specifically its protections for consumers with pre-existing conditions, as they promised while campaigning.
“We just want to make sure that the language is strengthening the ACA,” New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell told Politico. “None of us ever said the document we wrote from 2010 is a perfect document.”
The incoming chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, has repeatedly vowed to make protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions a top priority for Democrats, but party leaders have yet to outline a plan to do so.
“Everybody’s trying to figure out what we can do to tweak what’s there,” Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, who sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, said of Obamacare. “Can we amend it, and strengthen it?”
“I think that there’s going to be some rules saying the administration cannot tamper with [pre-existing condition protections],” said California Rep. Raul Ruiz, who also sits on Energy and Commerce. “That’s the objective.”
“A bunch of Republican candidates did a complete U-turn on the pre-existing condition question, and they made it back into office based on that profession of faith,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., “Now, everybody should be asked to commit and vote.”
Raskin added, “let’s nail them down.”
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