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On the recordFebruary 12, 2019
it seems to me, to claim, as we are hearing from a lot of the Members on the other side, that they absolutely want to protect people against discrimination based on preexisting conditions, on the one hand, but to defend these short-term limited duration plans on the other hand, because those plans actually put people in that position of being able to be denied, based on that situation.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes critiques the contradiction in defending short-term plans while claiming to protect against preexisting condition discrimination.

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