Consumer Confidential: Since lawmakers now agree on protecting people with preexisting conditions, here's how you do it
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2018
4 minutes
Healthcare stocks led the stock market lower Monday amid uncertainty over the future of Obamacare after a Texas judge, in his conservative wisdom, decided to throw out the law and possibly strip coverage from millions of people.
Most news stories have focused on the political bind this creates for Republican lawmakers, who loudly declared during the midterm election that they'll protect people with preexisting medical conditions despite having spent years trying to take those protections away.
What nobody is talking about is what measures are necessary to guarantee that anyone who wants health coverage can get it at an affordable
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