Health Expert Said Loeffler’s So-Called Plan “Short On Details & Substance,” “Long On Political Posturing.”

Atlanta, GA — A new report today found “no proof that Kelly Loeffler will ensure protections for preexisting conditions,” calling her so-called health care plan “thinly detailed” and “short of Obamacare’s protections for people with prior health problems.”  

Politifact found Loeffler’s claim that her plan would “ensure Americans with preexisting conditions are protected” false, and her “campaign did not provide us information to back up the senator’s claim that her proposal would ensure these protections.”

Health experts told Politifact the following on Loeffler’s sham plan: 

• “Short on details and substance, and long on political posturing.”
• “..would make adequate, affordable insurance for people with problems far less accessible than it is under current law.”
• “..is like giving a family one bag of sand to protect their home as a hurricane rushes in.” 
• “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.” 

Reverend Warnock supports protections for Georgians living with pre-existing conditions, and has spoken out against Loeffler’s sham plan saying: “Instead of finally getting serious about this issue, Kelly Loeffler is trying to cover up her record of opposing health care – even in the middle of the pandemic. She hasn’t outlined a single policy that will make sure insurance companies cannot discriminate against people if they have asthma, diabetes, heart disease or another condition and is even working to help those companies expand junk insurance plans that can deny coverage to people with a pre-existing condition.”

Read more on Loeffler’s sham plan below:  

Politifact: No proof that Kelly Loeffler will ensure protections for preexisting conditions
Tom Kertscher
November 30, 2020 

Key Points: 

• Republicans for years have worked to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, the law that established the gold standard for protecting people with preexisting health conditions against discrimination in insurance pricing and coverage. 
• Those efforts include a lawsuit — backed by the Trump administration and Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler — that would overturn Obamacare. The case is awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court.
• Now Loeffler, campaigning in one of two Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections that will determine which party controls the Senate, has advanced a new health care proposal — a “framework” she claims will “ensure Americans with preexisting conditions are protected.”
• Previous GOP alternatives, including one from Georgia’s other senator, David Perdue, have fallen short of Obamacare’s protections for people with prior health problems. 
• Loeffler’s thinly detailed plan does, too. 
• “There is nothing in the Loeffler plan that indicates she would support the policies necessary to protect Americans against insurer discrimination,” said Jonathan Oberlander, a professor of health policy and management, and of political science, at the University of North Carolina. “The plan is short on details and substance, and long on political posturing.”
• The Loeffler campaign did not provide us information to back up the senator’s claim that her proposal would ensure these protections.
• Loeffler released her four-page “Modernizing Americans’ Health Care Plan” on Nov. 13. As reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it is a collection of more than one dozen new pieces of legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Loeffler, along with three measures already signed into law. 
• The health care experts we spoke with said the plan lacked so many details that they were forced to make assumptions about what it might or might not include.  
• The plan lacks any detail to explain how it would provide protections that are at least as strong as the Affordable Care Act. Two of the plan’s provisions indicate it would make adequate and affordable insurance less accessible for people with preexisting conditions, experts say.
• Without evidence to back Loeffler’s claim, we rate it False.

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