A New Fight Endangering Ohioans
Astonishing! The Trump administration last week started a new fight! No, I don't mean the attack on Canadian Prime Minister
Here's what happened. Without prior warning, Attorney General
Let' back up. You'll remember that the Affordable Care Act, "Obamacare," provides that health insurance companies can't refuse to provide coverage or charge higher premiums based on a person's having a pre-existing health problem. That's the law! That protection against insurance discrimination was among the most important and popular elements of the Act, enabling millions of people with pre-existing health problems to obtain health coverage for the first time. With
But the administration blew up that promise when it announced last week in a federal court suit challenging the Affordable Care Act that it would not defend this critical patient protection. Instead it asked the court to end that protection as of
That's shocking! And it should ring alarm bells in this district, with more than 297,000 people here under the age of 65 having pre-existing health conditions, according to a recent analysis.
So what's our congressman,
Jordan's silence on the issue isn't just a damning failure to speak up for Ohioans. It says something about his principles, or more accurately, lack of principles. As recently as last week, Jordan responded to federal agents' mass arrests of seasonal garden workers in
The same principle applies to Obamacare, however. It remains on the books, and the federal government's job is to carry it out. As part of that job, the
So last week's events raise the question, what about the rule of law,
But if that's the approach a congressman chooses to take, we have a word for it - hypocrite!
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