I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.
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Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.
Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions. That's what change looks like.
We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.
People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well.
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
The states ought to be the ones making the decisions about the individual mandate, the employer mandate, all of the different requirements of what kind of insurance people have to have.
That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.
People don't want to be told what type of insurance they have to have.