“No Proof” She Will Protect Guaranteed Coverage for 1.8 Million Georgians with Pre-Existing Condition

Atlanta, GA – Independent fact checkers ruled that Kelly Loeffler’s claim that she would ensure protections for pre-existing conditions was “false” and that her sham health care plan “would make adequate and affordable insurance less accessible for people with preexisting conditions.” And just this week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported “there are no details or specifics offered to support her claim that she would protect pre-existing conditions.”

Loeffler’s sham health care plan does not outline a single policy that will make sure insurance companies cannot discriminate against people if they have asthma, diabetes, heart disease or another condition. And in the Senate, Loeffler is working to help those companies expand junk insurance plans that can deny coverage to people with a pre-existing condition and she has backed a lawsuit to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 

As Senator, Senior Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Reverend Raphael Warnock will work to protect and improve the Affordable Care Act, defend protections for pre-existing conditions, support legislation to lower the costs of prescription drugs, and fight back against efforts by Washington politicians to slash Medicare funding.

Here’s the truth about Senator Loeffler’s sham health care plan:  

• Loeffler’s proposal would codify into law the junk insurance plans pushed by the Trump Administration, which are not required to cover pre-existing conditions, can impose coverage limits, and allow insurers to keep massive amounts of their profits instead of investing in patients’ health care. 

• Loeffler’s proposal encourages states to follow Georgia’s new waiver eliminating use of healthcare.gov to help Georgian’s enroll in health insurance. Brookings predicts could result in 100,000 fewer Georgians getting insurance. 

What others are saying about Loeffler’s sham plan: 

• @StevenTDennis, Bloomberg Senate Reporter: “Loeffler keeps saying her plan would protect people with pre-existing conditions, but she is the sole author of a bill explicitly allowing insurers to offer plans lasting up to 3 years that DON’T cover pre-existing conditions.”
• @sahilkapur, NBC National Political Reporter:  “If ACA were axed, insurers could shut out sick people. This [plan] doesn’t come close to saying she’d cover them.”
• Jonathan Oberlander, University of North Carolina professor of health policy and management, and political science: “Short on details and substance, and long on political posturing.”
• Wendy Netter Epstein, director of DePaul University’s Health Law Institute: “..is like giving a family one bag of sand to protect their home as a hurricane rushes in.” 
• Allison Hoffman, a health care law expert at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law: “There’s nothing substantive in Kelly Loeffler’s framework that would protect people with preexisting conditions anywhere near to the degree the Affordable Care Act does.” 
• Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at Kaiser Family Foundation said “I just don’t see it” telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she could find nothing in the plan to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions. 

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