One of the Trump administration's efforts to sabotage Obamacare hasn't worked out the way the Trumpers planned it, but that's not stopping Senate Democrats from forcing Republicans to take a vote on it. Last year, the administration issued a rule that states could allow the subsidies under the Affordable Care Act to be used to purchase cut-rate insurance that, among other things, doesn't protect people who have pre-existing conditions from being denied coverage. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats are going to force a vote on a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the rule.
It turns out that the states really didn't want to allow those plans anyway, perhaps not wanting to face the backlash from irate patients or their healthcare providers. Not one state has taken the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator up on the offer, CMS tells The Washington Post.
That helps put Senate Republicans in even more of a bind on this vote, knowing that the policy is unpopular in their states and that it could harm people. Given that their states aren't using it, the only valid rationale they would have to oppose the resolution is standing by Trump. "We are going to make sure families know which party is offering solutions to protect their case—and which is blocking them," Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington said last week on the Senate floor. "Which party is fighting for their health care and which is fighting against it."
That's a rhetorical question, by the way.
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