Secret Dan Sullivan health care plan matches Trump's nonexistent plan to cover preexisting conditions

Sen. Dan Sullivan has a secret health care plan that consists entirely of campaign ads and a promise to protect those with preexisting conditions “no questions asked.”

Unfortunately, the plan does nothing to protect Alaskans from empty platitudes.

Sullivan is fortunate that Alaska news organizations have not examined his secret plan because otherwise it might be exposed as a meaningless pledge that leaves every important medical question unanswered.

What is the secret Sullivan plan?

His campaign website claims “he’s fought hard to protect patients with preexisting conditions” and “repeal the negative aspects of Obamacare.”

His ads say the secret plan “starts by making sure everyone with a preexisting condition is covered, no questions asked,” which is the same sort of drivel that has emanated from President Trump since 2015.

There is still time before the election for Alaska news organizations to do some real coverage of health care issues and the differences between Sullivan and challenger Al Gross.

Trump hopes that the Supreme Court will strike down Obamacare, he told “60 Minutes” in his latest disastrous interview, and Trump will unveil a secret health care plan that will be cheaper and better than anyone can believe. And it will protect people with preexisting conditions.

“You’re going to have such great health care at a fraction of the cost,” Trump said four years ago. “And it’s going to be so easy.”

This is imaginary health care coverage, brought to you by Trump and Sullivan, which is of use in fighting imaginary illnesses. It’s easy to get imaginary coverage and it’s available at a fraction fo the cost.

Sullivan ran for Senate in 2014 adopting the mindless “repeal and replace” chant. He talked about “freedom-based” health care, which would have been almost as good as imaginary Trumpcare.

Part of freeom-based health care was to create “high-risk pools” to coverage preexisting conditions. This would have guaranteed that coverage would have come only at a high price.

In 2017, Sullivan’s office produced a 14-page document in which he claimed that an Obamacare repeal bill that died that summer would have been made better for Alaska after the fact—there was a secret plan to help Alaskans with a future amendment.

“You’re going to have such great health care at a fraction of the cost,” Sullivan could have said. “And it’s going to be so easy.”

A week after the election, the Supreme Court is to consider a case to dismantle Obamacare, a case that could mean the end of coverage for those with preexisting conditions and the loss of insurance for many.

Sullivan joined Democrats in early October in trying to stop funding for the Trump legal fight, recognizing he political risk the repeal without replace poses for Sullivan.

Sullivan has claimed that Gross was “colluding with big insurance companies” when he was in private practice, making $2.5 million a year for working part time. He also says that Gross supports expanding Medicare to everyone in the U.S., which Sullivan’s says would cost $32 trillion.

Gross says he supports a public option to allow people to buy into Medicare. There is a lot of back-and-forth campaign nonsense on this entire issue, which hasn’t been sorted out.