If Republicans want to campaign this year on repealing health care reform, that’s fine with me. In fact, I encourage them to argue for repealing provisions in health care reform legislation like:
*Preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for “pre-existing conditions”
*Allowing children to be covered on their parents’ insurance plan up to the age of 26.
*Closing the “donut hole” (the coverage gap in the Medicare prescription drug benefit)
*Ending lifetime spending limits on policies
*Forbidding insurers from retroactively canceling policies
*Removing co-pays for seniors to get checkups
All of these provisions are in the health care reform legislation passed by Congress, and all are extremely popular with the American people. If Republicans like Rob Wittman, Frank Wolf, Robert Hurt, Scott Rigell, Keith Fimian, Pat Herrity, Morgan Griffith, etc. want to run on repealing these things, I strongly encourage them to do so and see how the voters respond in November. This should be interesting! 🙂
P.S. It might even be Republicans’ “Waterloo.” Wouldn’t that be ironic?
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