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Trump Claims He ‘Saved Pre-Existing Conditions’ Despite Fighting to Eliminate Them

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President Donald Trump claimed he “saved pre-existing conditions” in a tweet, despite the fact his administration is currently fighting a legal battle to eliminate them.

The president made the dubious claim on Monday across two tweets responding to Democratic nominee and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who went after Trump in a series of ads about his record on health care.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216716337822695425

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216716358676860928

But the president’s claim is not true. In fact, the historical record shows the opposite of what Trump’s tweets claim. As The New York Times reported, “His [Trump’s] first legislative priority as president was a bill that would have repealed key parts of Obamacare and weakened such protections.”

Americans with pre-existing conditions are currently protected from higher premiums or deductibles because of former President Barack Obama, who helped pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. One crucial and at times contentious part of the ACA mandated that health insurance companies charge sick and healthy people the same premiums. That mandate enjoys widespread support from Americans but is currently being fought over in court.

Why? Because the Trump administration is fighting to repeal the law. The administration is trying to win a legal battle for a full repeal of the law, which would remove provisions that protect patients with pre-existing conditions. And the Trump administration’s alternatives that it’s supported — from short-term health insurance to the American Health Care Act — do not protect patients with pre-existing conditions from higher premiums.

Immediately after sending the tweet, politicians, journalists and pundits began slamming Trump for a “bald-faced lie.”

Come on. Your administration has been arguing in court to repeal protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

You're trying to take health care away from millions of people. The least you could do is be honest about it. https://t.co/T0XxHFgy44

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 13, 2020

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1216719432078282753

This is a bald-faced lie.

Having changed its position, the Justice Department is now actively asking the federal courts to throw out the entire ACA—including, more than a little cynically, the (entirely constitutional) requirement that insurers cover pre-existing conditions. https://t.co/VvI6M6RuMQ

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 13, 2020

An obscene, Orwellian lie, and Dems need to actually make a stink about it rather than just count on fact checkers to do it for them. Otherwise, every other Republican will parrot the lie and the acquiescent media will report that views on who saved pre-ex protections differ. https://t.co/YMqlkpcoD0

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 13, 2020

Despite facing widespread backlash, Trump has not backed down from his claims. Instead, he pivoted on Twitter from health care to the alleged Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) feud, and tweets critical of the impeachment process and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

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Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul is a senior politics reporter, editor and founding member at A Plus, the positive news oulet founded by Ashton Kutcher. He also writes the independent, non-partisan, ad-free politics newsletter Tangle. His reporting focuses on Congress, elections, immigration and climate change. His writing has appeared in CNN, The New York Daily News, The Forward, Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, Quartz, and been cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Fox News, among others. Before A Plus, he was an Associate Editor at The Huffington Post and the sports editor at The Pitt News.

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