St. Paul – Karin Housley has repeatedly supported health care plans that would not protect people with pre-existing conditions.
Here are three times when Housley would have gutted protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
1. Housley supported the 2017 Republican Health Care Plan (That Would Have Gutted Protections For Pre-Existing Conditions)
Housley supported the Republican health care plan that failed in Congress last year by one vote that would have gutted protections for people with pre-existing conditions. The Republican plan also would have increased people’s health care costs and imposed an age tax which would have allowed insurance companies to charge older Americans up to five times more.
Housley’s “rubber stamp” would have been the deciding vote that ripped away protections for people with pre-existing conditions away.
2. Housley, Honest For Once, Admits She Wants To Repeal Protections For Those With Pre-Existing Conditions
Unlike Republicans across the country, Housley has stopped even pretending to support protections for those with preexisting conditions. In interviews with KARE11 and WCCO Radio last week, Housley detailed her plans for health care, which include allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions, or charge higher prices to people with pre-existing conditions, and she wants to bring back lifetime caps on benefits cutting off health care for some with chronic conditions.
3. Housley Would Have Rubber Stamped President Trump’s ‘Junk’ Health Care Plans (That Can Deny Coverage To People With Pre-Existing Conditions)
Housley would have rubber stamped the new Trump administration rule that expands access to “junk” health care plans that can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. On Oct. 10, the Senate tried to stop the Trump administration’s efforts but it failed by only one vote. Housley would have joined Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to undermine protections for people with pre-existing conditions by voting to loosen restrictions on these “junk” plans.
In contrast, Sen. Smith tried to stop the Trump Administration’s assault on pre-existing conditions by championing a resolution to block the expansion of these “junk plans” in the Senate.