Sen. Donnelly fights to protect pre-existing conditions

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IN THE NEWS: Head down and working hard, Donnelly fights to protect pre-existing conditions protections, Daily Beast says

Joe Donnelly isn’t focused on Washington politics – he’s interested in representing all Hoosiers, regardless of political affiliation, and the issues they care about.

That was the message from the Daily Beast, who caught up with Joe last week during his seven-day RV tour and saw him laser focused on protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions and ensuring that good-paying jobs are available to support Hoosier families. As Indiana’s hired help in the Senate, Joe doesn’t need the spotlight, as long as Hoosiers are getting what they need from Washington.

FROM THE DAILY BEAST: CAN NO-FRILLS SENATE DEMOCRAT JOE DONNELLY WIN IN THE AGE OF DONALD TRUMP?

Joe Donnelly is the polar opposite of President Donald Trump in nearly every way.
On paper, he’s an ideologically centrist, mild-mannered, largely reserved Democrat. He doesn’t get into Twitter fights with his political enemies. He eschews the spotlight and rarely, if ever, goes on national television. He doesn’t care much for Trump’s bombastic personal style. He’s a throwback to the era when mundane was normal and voters rewarded the work and not the show.
But that was then. In modern political times, the landscape Donnelly faces is daunting… His task is to convince Indiana voters to re-elect him to the U.S. Senate. And his strategy is to convince them that moderation—in both temperament and ideology—is precisely what the country needs in these very immoderate times.
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Speaking at a roundtable with constituents in South Bend, Donnelly praised the coverage requirements in Obamacare for people with pre-existing conditions. He said the Trump administration was “sabotaging” and Affordable Care Act, and he blasted the Justice Department for its apparent crusade to end such protections for people with pre-existing conditions, a legal battle that could end up before the high court.
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“Paul Ryan gave away the game when he said, we’ve got huge deficits, now we’re going to pay it down with Medicare and Social Security,” he said. “To see [those programs] be cut so we can give a tax cut to the very biggest corporations in this country, at the same time putting a huge debt on our children’s shoulders—I have no problem with that argument.”