Trump signs largely symbolic pre-existing conditions order amid lawsuit

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Trump signs largely symbolic pre-existing conditions order amid lawsuit
By Peter Sullivan - 09/24/20 06:35 PM EDT

President Trump on Thursday signed a largely symbolic executive order aimed at protecting people with pre-existing conditions as he takes fire for a lawsuit seeking to overturn ObamaCare, which enacted those protections.

“The historic action I am taking today includes the first-ever executive order to affirm it is the official policy of the United States government to protect patients with pre-existing conditions,” Trump said during a speech in North Carolina, a key swing state. “So we're making that official.”

Trump noted “our opponents, the Democrats, like to constantly talk about” health care and pre-existing conditions, but “now we have it affirmed, this is affirmed, signed and done.”

The White House did not immediately release the text of the order, but from Trump and other officials’ descriptions it simply states that protecting people with pre-existing conditions is the policy of the government, something that does not have the force of law on its own.

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/518112-trump-signs-largely-symbolic-pre-existing-conditions-order-amid-lawsuit

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So the Executive Order says the U.S. believes in covering existing conditions but if Obamacare gets struck down in the fall then coverage for existing conditions go with it.  Then what?  An Executive Order won't continue that coverage.  Only legislation will do that.