Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of Rochester is one of four U.S. Representatives leading 174 members of Congress in urging President-Elect Trump not to sign a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Slaughter wrote the letter with Representatives Diana DeGette, Jan Schakowsky and Katherine Clark. It says repealing the ACA would have a disproportionately negative effect on women and girls. It quotes Trump’s campaign statement “nobody respects women more than me,” and asks him to put it into action by saving Obamacare.
They’re talking about the ACA’s ban on charging women more than men for health insurance, and banning insurance companies from calling pregnancy a “pre existing condition”
The letter says Republicans in the Congress have put forward nothing to preserve these guarantees in their legislation repealing the act.