There are two things to know about Republicans when they talk about protecting your health care and your pre-existing conditions coverage this election: 1) they are lying; 2) they will take your health care away if they are re-elected.
Setting the stage is the fact that voters know what Republicans intend to do to health care, which has made it the most important issue of this midterm cycle. It's remained so throughout the past year, and was number one in this month's Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Nearly as many voters surveyed say a candidate's position on health care (71 percent) is as important as the candidate's character and experience (73 percent).
That's why Republicans are lying about what they intend to do to health care. It's not like it's ever been a big secret that they believe government should have nothing to do in the sector. Look at the efforts starting with Newt Gingrich as House speaker back in the 1990s to begin dismantling Medicare. His proposed cuts were just one of the triggers for his shutdown showdown with President Bill Clinton on 1995. Fast forward a couple of decades and there's soon-to-be House Speaker Paul Ryan making a big push to privatize Medicare and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading the House maniacs to shutdown government over Obamacare repeal.
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They're all saying now, like Trump, that "Republicans will totally protect people with Pre-Existing Conditions, Democrats will not! Vote Republican." He's saying this while he is suing his own government (really!) to have those protections in the Affordable Care Act declared unconstitutional! And there are Republicans running for Congress saying the exact same thing. Like Missouri's attorney general, who is also suing to get rid of the ACA, who’s running for Senate against Democrat Claire McCaskill. Josh Hawley is even exploiting his own child's illness in television ads to try to buffalo voters.
At some point, even the Republican base is going to come to the realization that they're being lied to and that their leaders don't give a damn if they have health care or not. In the meantime, the job is to get the rest of us who do know that to the polls.