Hill November 26, 2018
Democrats won a majority in the House on Election Day, powered largely by their message on health care. Now they are hungry to put their ideas into action, with plans to lower prescription drug prices and expand the Affordable Care Act.
Here are five health-care ideas that House Democrats will be pushing in the next Congress.
Protecting people with pre-existing conditions
Democrats hammered Republicans during this year’s campaign for voting to weaken the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Now the party wants to have a quick vote to reinforce those protections, and to put some moderate Republicans in a tough spot.
One leading idea is to vote to have the House formally intervene in...