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,” Vance claimed that Donald Trump during his presidency “protected” Americans getting insurance through the Affordable Care Act “from losing their health coverage.”In reality, Trump spent the first year of his presidency trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act , following through on a promise he’d made from the very first days of his 2016 presidential campaign.
One such piece of legislation was the “American Health Care Act of 2017,” whose passage through the House of Representatives Trumppredicted, the number of Americans without insurance would have soared ― by 19 million as of 2020, and by 23 million as of 2026. Without those same rules in place, CBO predicted, some Americans “with preexisting or newly acquired medical conditions” would “ultimately be unable to purchase comprehensive nongroup health insurance at premiums comparable to those under current law, if they could purchase it at all.”Excerpt from Congressional Budget Office analysis of the 2017 House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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