Rep. Sarbanes Exposes GOP Efforts to Undermine High-Quality and Affordable Health Care

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release:

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- At a Health Subcommittee Hearing, Congressman Sarbanes Slammed Republican Efforts to Sabotage the Affordable Care Act, Offer Junk Insurance Plans to the American People and Reduce the Quality of Health Care

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At a House Subcommittee on Health hearing today, Congressman John Sarbanes (D-Md.) slammed efforts by the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans to undermine the Affordable Care Act and make it harder for Americans - including patients with pre-existing conditions - to access high-quality and affordable care.

"It is incompatible, it seems to me, to claim - as we're hearing from a lot of the [Republican] Members from the other side - that they absolutely want to protect people from discrimination based on preexisting conditions on the one hand, but to defend these short-term, limited-duration plans on the other hand," said Congressman Sarbanes. "Because those plans actually put people in that position of being able to be denied based on that [pre-existing condition] situation."

See below for a full video of the Congressman's remarks (https://youtu.be/IRqxF9BHttM).