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Statement

Today’s Vote Was a Truth Test for U.S. Senators Who Promised to Protect Health Coverage for People with Pre-Existing Conditions. 52 Republicans Failed, Giving the Trump Administration a Greenlight to Continue Sabotaging Our Care.

October 30, 2019
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Statement from leaders of MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the resolution to block the Trump administration's junk plan rule:

“Today’s vote on the resolution to block the Trump administration’s 1332 waiver rule—which would have prevented the administration from pushing bare-bones ‘junk’ health plans that allow discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions—was a truth test for those who promised to protect health coverage for the more than 130 million people with pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately for the country, 52 Republican U.S. Senators failed that test.

“Because of this vote, many people with chronic and pre-existing conditions—the majority of whom are women—could soon be without affordable options for health care coverage. More people will invest their hard-earned money in discriminatory, inadequate junk plans that fail to cover prescription medications and maternity and mental health care, waive coverage for essential health benefits, limit care, and fail to provide the basic consumer protections we all need and deserve.”

-- Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO, MomsRising

“Today’s vote is a greenlight from the U.S. Senate for the Trump administration to continue sabotaging the protections ensured to all of us by the Affordable Care Act, and to put meaningful coverage out of reach for millions of people with pre-existing conditions. America’s moms will long remember how every senator voted today.”

-- Donna Norton, Executive Vice President, MomsRising

 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.