The June Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that 76% of voters, including 58% of Republicans, say coverage for pre-existing conditions is “very important” to them. But last month, the Administration decided not to defend the ACA from a legal challenge with the potential to undo pre-existing condition protections. Senator Maria Cantwell recently called on the US Justice Department to protect the ACA, saying “if they truly wanted to protect people with pre-existing conditions they would ask Congress to amend the law to a form they believed was constitutional.” Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers also criticized the Justice Department’s decision, promising to be “ready to act if the courts invalidate these [pre-existing condition] protections.”