At the Huffington Post, Jonathan Cohn accuses Arizona Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally of “deceiving the public” and “rewriting history” about health care in a recent debate.
At issue is her vote for the House version of the Obamacare-repeal bill. McSally said, "I voted to protect people with pre-existing conditions. We cannot go back to where we were before Obamacare, where people were one diagnosis away from going bankrupt, because they could not get access to health care."
The bill for which McSally voted included protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Those protections would be stronger than the ones in place before Obamacare. They would, however, be weaker than the ones in Obamacare; how much weaker is a matter on which reasonable people can disagree. McSally is glossing over that point, as one would expect, but that strikes me as a matter of political spin rather than deceit.
