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There is a Republican plan to cover pre-existing conditions — and the House already passed it
Here is a fact that Democrats are desperately trying to keep from the public: Not only do Republicans support providing health insurance coverage for those with preexisting conditions, but Republicans in the House actually passed legislation that did just that.
The American Health Care Act included an amendment that Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., and I introduced. It ensured that anyone with a preexisting condition could purchase health insurance. The Palmer-Schweikert amendment established a risk-sharing plan that allowed any individual with a preexisting condition to purchase insurance at the same price as a healthy individual. This was not an unproven idea — in fact, the plan was modeled after a successful state-level program. Instead of billions of dollars in bailouts for health insurance companies, the Republican plan was funded by having the majority of the premiums paid by those with preexisting conditions transferred into a fund. This represents an alternative approach to Obamacare’s guaranteed-issue provision, which priced everyone as sick, resulting in far more expensive premiums. Our amendment put the money in a risk-sharing plan that targeted assistance to cover those with preexisting conditions, but also required the insurers to have some skin in the game. The result was more affordable premiums for all.
By setting up this arrangement, the Republican plan not only guaranteed coverage to people with preexisting conditions, it reduced premiums for everyone else in every age group. According to an analysis by Milliman, one of the nation’s top independent actuarial firms, the Republican risk-sharing plan would have provided prompt assistance for people with high-cost claims, lowered premium costs by 12-31 percent, and increased the number of people with health insurance by up to 2.2 million. The Republican bill with this amendment passed the House on May 4, 2017 without a single Democrat vote in favor. Even though the ACHA stalled in the Senate, the risk-sharing plan will be part of a legislative package that I, along with others, intend to reintroduce in the next Congress along with provisions that will be a huge step toward repairing and restoring health care in America.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/there-is-a-republican-plan-to-cover-pre-existing-conditions-and-the-house-already-passed-it
'False claims' scheme targeting Robert Mueller referred to FBI
An alleged scheme targeting special counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI. "When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said special counsel spokesman Peter Carr in a Tuesday statement. Last week, several journalists received an email from someone claiming to have been offered money in exchange to make sexual harassment claims against Mueller. “Two weeks ago, I was contacted by a woman who claimed to be a former associate of Mueller who said that she got a phone call from a man working on behalf of a GOP operative who was paying women to come forward to make up sexual assault allegations,” tweeted independent investigative journalist Scott Stedman. Two other journalists have said the same, including The Atlantic’s Natasha Bertrand and The New Yorker’s Jane Meyer. The Washington Examiner did not receive such an email.
Ed Krassenstein, who writes for The Hill Reporter, detailed the claims, which include a woman alleging she was offered roughly $20,000 through a middle-man hired by Jack Burkman, a Republican lobbyist and lawyer based in Washington. The woman told journalists that she worked for Mueller as a paralegal at the Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro law firm in 1974. In order to get the money, she would have to "make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.” The woman said the man, acting as an intermediary for Burkman, “offered to pay off all of my credit card debt, plus bring me a check for $20,000 if I would do one thing,” she wrote. “In more of an effort to get him to go away than anything else, I asked him what in the hell he wanted me to do. He said that we could not talk about it on the phone, and he asked me to download an app on my phone called Signal, which he said was more secure. Reluctantly, I downloaded the app and he called me on that app a few minutes later. He said (and I will never forget exactly what it was) ‘I want you to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller, and I want you to sign a sworn affidavit to that effect,” said the woman. Journalist Yashar Ali, like Krassenstein, also revealed he received a similar email.
Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May 2017 to investigate Russian election interference and possible connections to the Trump campaign. President Trump, who has routinely railed against Mueller's investigation as a "hoax" and a "witch hunt," maintained as recently as Monday night that it is an illegal inquiry. "I do get along [with Rosenstein], but … there should never have been a special counsel, in my opinion," Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham. "It's an illegal investigation totally. A lot of people agree with me. A lot of people on your show and other shows agree. There was no collusion. There was never any collusion … But with all of that being said, I do get along and I have made everything available. You know why? Because I have nothing to do with Russia. Hillary was a lousy candidate and I did a very good job."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/false-claims-scheme-targeting-robert-mueller-referred-to-fbi
Border official: three-quarters of migrants in the caravan are adult men
Nearly three-quarters of those in the caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico to the United States are adult men, a senior Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner. Families and unaccompanied children make up "about 20 to 30 percent" of the caravan, according to Roy Villareal, deputy chief patrol agent of the Border Patrol's San Diego Sector. "The rest of that is single, adult males," Villareal said during a recent tour of the region.
Single-parent families and children who illegally enter the country will not be prosecuted, unlike adults. If a one-parent family or child is found to have illegally entered the country, they may also still claim asylum. The process of having an asylum claim heard before a judge can take a couple of years. Due to the Department of Homeland Security's inability to hold more than a few thousand people at a time, tens of thousands of people were released into the country in fiscal 2018 and told to appear for immigration court dates in the future.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have said the inability to deport immediately has incentivized people to illegally enter rather than request asylum at a port of entry. Single adults, who if found to have trespassed, will be referred by CBP to the Justice Department for prosecution. First-time illegal entry is a misdemeanor and subsequently it is a felony. "At some point, those single, adult males — when they show up at the border — may look to utilize those smuggling services," said Villareal.
Each person in the group of migrants traveling to the U.S. in the caravan will have to save up to $9,000, depending on what a cartel will charge to transport them into the U.S. Because single men will immediately be processed, referred for prosecution, and then removed, they typically want to avoid being caught and do not want to request asylum at a port of entry. "There’s a very effective cartel control mechanism on the south side of the border, so one way or another I think they’ll extract a toll, it may not be the full extent, but one way or another, I think they’ll take advantage of the situation," the official said. Eighty percent of asylum cases were not granted in 2017.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/70-80-percent-of-caravan-is-adult-men-border-official
Do we have real facts to back that up Anon? Asking because I haven't seen it yet?
Do you have another sauce for that snopes has been proven to be fake fact checkers…
Ahh, got it!