Trump Takes Credit For Obamacare, Says Democrats Want to Repeal It

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Trump Takes Credit For Obamacare, Says Democrats Want to Repeal It

By Jonathan Chait, The Intelligencer, NY Magazine


http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/trump-preexisting-conditions-lie-health-care-obamacare.html

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Since he began running for president, Donald Trump has been lying about health care in general, and protections for patients with preexisting conditions in particular. Trump’s long-standing lie is that he has a plan to help people with preexisting conditions afford insurance, or will shortly unveil such a plan. His most recent version of this lie goes even farther. Trump is now saying that he actually created the protection for preexisting conditions, and that Democrats are trying to take it away:

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

 · Jan 13, 2020

Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising. I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive, unfair and very unpopular Individual Mandate.....

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

....and, if Republicans win in court and take back the House of Represenatives, your healthcare, that I have now brought to the best place in many years, will become the best ever, by far. I will always protect your Pre-Existing Conditions, the Dems will not!

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This is the literal polar opposite of reality.

Before Obamacare, the individual health-care market was dominated by a practice called medical underwriting, in which insurers would sell plans to people based on their expected cost. A person with a healthy history could buy a pretty cheap plan, but somebody with a history of expensive medical needs would have to pay a lot more — sometimes, insurers would refuse to cover any treatment for preexisting conditions. One of the main accomplishments in Obamacare was to regulate the individual market, so that insurers could no longer charge different rates to customers based on their medical status.

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Posting this story again because we need it to be a long term meme. That way it will become the narrative of Trump.

[D_Master81]

1. He lies about everything

Literally everything he says is a lie. The truth is completely up to your own interpretation under this man.

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2. So we have to hold up his lies and show why they are lies. And with important

lies like this we need to post again and again so it becomes part of the pattern of Trump.

[Baked Potato]

3. Call Fish & Game! This guy is a Poacher!

[Wounded Bear]

4. I keep getting spam for TrumpCare...

[BKDem]

5. Trump and the Rs don't have a health care plan.

They’ve never had a plan. They never will have a plan. They don’t give a shit about your health care. They never have. They never will.

If you believe anything Donald Trump has ever said on this subject, you need a mental health examination, which is gonna cost you.

[Boomerproud]

6. "Mini Mike Bloomberg "-there you have it.

The bullying. name calling is starting already. As others have pointed out, the Repukes had never better utter a syllable about health care since they have had a chance to come up with a workable plan since Truman and do not have the will and brains to do it. All they do is sit and throw spears. Come on Dems-shout it!