Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh refused to say whether he’d uphold the Affordable Care Act’s protections for pre-existing conditions, which are currently at risk due to a GOP lawsuit at the lower court level.
Kavanaugh, in dodging Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)’s question, pointed to what Supreme Court justices had said in their confirmation hearings about declining to say how they would rule in specific cases.
“It’s a combination of my respect for nominee precedent and my respect for judicial independence,” Kavanaugh said. “So I can’t give assurances on a specific hypothetical.”
I think we all know what this means - If Kavanaugh makes it to the court and you have a kid born with asthma, you’re screwed.
In other words, Kavanaugh will vote to kill the ACA prohibition on insurance companies denying treatment for preexisting conditions.
Can we all just agree Kavanaugh is a far right wing extremist who will rubberstamp the worst aspects of the GOP agenda?
In Kavanaugh’s bubble, not being born into the One Percent qualifies as a “pre-existing condition”.
Welp, I’m screwed.
For someone so well educated, he doesn’t seem to understand what the term ‘hypothetical’ means.