WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement on Majority Leader McConnell’s claim that “everybody" in the Senate supports current law protections that ensure patients with pre-existing conditions can’t be denied coverage, even though Republicans repeatedly attempted to gut those protections and support Trump Administration efforts to undermine them.
“If every Republican now supports protecting pre-existing conditions, that’s news to very sick patients across the country who fought back again and again as Republicans tried to go back to the days when a pre-existing condition meant you might not be eligible for insurance, or could be priced out completely-especially since many Republicans continue to want to pass harmful bills to do exactly that.
“As I’ve said all along, I am at the table and ready to work with Republicans to lower costs and strengthen health care as soon as they’re ready to put patients ahead of extreme, partisan special interests-and I would welcome their support in standing against President Trump’s latest effort to ignore the law and allow insurers to deny sick patients access to health care they desperately need."
