GOP to constituents: If you don’t like it, move.
Let us get this straight, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), if people with pre-existing conditions like cancer want access to coverage they need to move? Prior to the ACA, North Carolina did not require insurers to cover those with pre-existing conditions, which means you’re telling your constituents to move. Something tells us that won’t go over well with folks back home.
“’People can go to the state that they want to live in,’ Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told reporters Tuesday morning when asked if people with pre-existing conditions could be charged much more under the American Health Care Act.”
“’States have all kinds of different policies and there are disparities among states for many things: driving restrictions, alcohol, whatever,’ he continued. ‘We’re putting choices back in the hands of the states. That’s what Jeffersonian democracy provides for.’”