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“at 12:15 p.m., the Senate will vote on a Democratic proposal to overturn a Trump administration guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services that would lower insurance rates all across America. Seems like a strange thing to do, but to justify that, the Democrats have come up with a scary fairytale that has no basis in truth, that suggests that somehow this effort to lower insurance rates would jeopardize the protection for preexisting conditions that all Americans have according to the law. Of course, that can't happen because the law doesn't permit it. So I want to talk about that a little bit today. What the Senate Democrats want to overturn is a Trump administration guidance regarding what is called a section 1332 waiver. Now, a 1332 waiver was part of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 that Democrats passed. No Republican voted for it. So you had the Affordable Care Act, which says, among other things, that every American who has a preexisting health condition is protected. That means that if I have a preexisting health condition, and I want to buy insurance, I have a right to buy it. I can't be charged any more for it because of my preexisting health condition, and I am covered if I get sick. That is what we mean by protection for preexisting conditions. That is in the Federal law. No American can be denied that protection.…”