Dear Mr. Trump,

One of the biggest lies you’ve ever told the American people is that you’re going to create a wonderful health care system to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Sadly, you’ve gotten some people to believe these lies; they don’t want to admit you conned them into voting for you.

Among your many lies is that you support continued insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Yet, on Tuesday, your Administration is set to argue in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the ACA is entirely unconstitutional. In particular, you attack the “the ‘guaranteed issue’ provisions, which prohibit insurers from denying coverage because of an individual’s medical condition or history.”

This is not fake news. This is your own brief, at p. 2

So, if you have your way in court:

No coverage for pre-existing conditions.

Also, if you have your way in court:

No subsidies to help people by health plans through ACA marketplaces.

No expansion of Medicaid in thirty-six states.

No ability for young adults to stay on their parents’ health policies until age 26.

Clearly, taking health coverage away from desperate people doesn’t concern you or the Republican party one bit. There is no “wonderful” Republican plan. Even when your party had control of Congress, it couldn’t pass a so-called “wonderful” plan.

You’re rich. Your Republican friends in Congress are rich. None of this health care stuff matters to them or their families in the least.

It matters only to people who have to choose between buying food for their families or seeing an affordable doctor. It matters only to people who can’t get coverage or care for their pre-existing cancer.

No problem for you and your Republican buddies, though.

No problem until we vote in 2020.

Very truly yours,

Bruce J. Berger