Title: Protecting the health care of all Americans, especially those with preexisting conditions.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) no American should lose protections for pre-existing conditions due to the enactment of an unconstitutional law, and (2) Congress should enact bipartisan legislation to guarantee affordable health insurance coverage if the Supreme Court decides the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 280 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 280

  Protecting the health care of all Americans, especially those with 
                        preexisting conditions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2019

    Mr. Walden (for himself and Mr. Brady) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Protecting the health care of all Americans, especially those with 
                        preexisting conditions.

    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) no American should have their health insurance taken 
        away or lose protections for preexisting conditions due to the 
        Democrats in Congress enacting an unconstitutional law; and
            (2) if the Supreme Court of the United States decides all 
        or part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is 
        unconstitutional in Texas v. United States--
                    (A)  Congress and the Trump Administration should 
                immediately ask the Court for a stay in the decision;
                    (B) Congress and the Trump Administration should 
                act together to ensure Americans are not adversely 
                impacted by the decision; and
                    (C) Congress should enact bipartisan legislation to 
                replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 
                that is constitutional and that--
                            (i) guarantees no American citizen can be 
                        denied health insurance coverage or charged 
                        more as the result of a previous illness or 
                        health status;
                            (ii) includes commonsense consumer 
                        protections;
                            (iii) reverses the damage of the policies 
                        that have doubled the cost of health insurance 
                        and reduced access and choice for millions of 
                        Americans;
                            (iv) provides more choices and affordable 
                        coverage options than the Patient Protection 
                        and Affordable Care Act;
                            (v) lowers prescription drug prices for 
                        patients;
                            (vi) strengthens the Medicare program for 
                        current and future beneficiaries, including by 
                        protecting the coverage of more than 20 million 
                        seniors enrolled under Medicare Advantage 
                        plans; and
                            (vii) protects job-based health coverage by 
                        rejecting the Democrats' radical one-size-fits-
                        all government run health care scheme that 
                        would outlaw the coverage more than 150 million 
                        Americans currently get through work.
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