On the recordMay 22, 2019
I am certainly disappointed that my Republican colleagues have chosen to object to protecting people with preexisting conditions. It is my contention that some of the very opposite impacts, because of these junk plans, are occurring than what my colleague has recited. In fact, I hardly consider them insurance plans. Many have argued that they are not worth the paper that they are written on. They don't cover many essential benefits. They are not required to cover people with preexisting health conditions. They can drop people. They can charge outrageous prices. What we found--and the reason that the Obama administration went from yearlong plans to 3-month plans--is that they saw the distortion in the markets. They saw that people who had believed that they might not get sick--healthy, often younger people-- were availing themselves of these plans, making the Affordable Care----
