Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) has been asked to defend his eponymous American Health Care Act amendment to some of his most formidable critics: teens.
During a nearly five-hour Wednesday night town hall, high school senior Joseph Zetkulic asked MacArthur about the amendment’s policies on pre-existing conditions.
“How did it pass your conscience to allow rape to become a pre-existing condition?” Zetkulic asked, according to ThinkProgress. “Is rape considered a pre-existing condition under your amendment, yes or no?”
Apparently, MacArthur did his best to dodge the question, chalking up claims that sexual assault could be included among the AHCA’s preexisting conditions to “hysteria.” Read more (5/12/17)