The “Ensuring Coverage for Patients with Pre-Existing Conditions Act” would prohibit individual premiums from varying based on health, but allow them to vary based on age, gender, occupation and leisure activities (Photo: Shutterstock)
Ten Senate Republicans have introduced legislation that would reinstate Obamacare rules that prohibit insurers from turning away people with pre-existing conditions if a new lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the health-care law succeeds.
The legislation comes two weeks before oral arguments begin on September 5 in Texas v. United States, a Republican-led lawsuit brought by 20 states, which contends that the 2010 health-care law is unconstitutional after Congress neutered the tax penalty for those who don't comply with its individual mandate to buy coverage.
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