Vance tried to rewrite history concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, which currently serves 45 million Americans with affordable healthcare. He said that Trump saved the plan and that is an absolute lie.
Trump campaigned on Repealing and Replacing Obamacare. Once in office, he used every tactic to shred the plan from the inside out before attempting a legislative attack. Through Executive Order, he instructed administration officials "to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay" implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act, while Congress got ready to repeal and replace President Obama's signature health law.
When the bill finally came up for a vote in the Senate, the legislation to repeal of the ACA did not include a replacement, only a plan that would have thrown 12 million off the program, leaving them with no insurance at all.
This lack of a replacement forced the hand of Senator John McCain, who did not necessarily support Obamacare, but he did not want to throw people off the plan without a viable replacement.
During the late night vote in 2017, a repeal of the plan required only 1 more yes vote, but McCain walked out on the floor of the Senate and gave the repeal legislation the now famous “Thumbs Down” and saved the plan.
Trump was, over the next two years, able to make changes to the plan by eliminating the individual mandate, allowing states to mandate work requirements, ending subsidies to insurers, allowing the so called “Skinny Plans” with miniscule coverage and finally, slashed funding for the advertising program for enrollment.
After a slow roll out and some problems, the plan is highly successful and we have only one man to thank for saving it. Thank you John McCain, not Donald Trump, who did everything he could to gut and destroy the ACA.
J.D. Vance’s Biggest Debate Lie
Vance tried to rewrite history concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, which currently serves 45 million Americans with affordable healthcare. He said that Trump saved the plan and that is an absolute lie.
Trump campaigned on Repealing and Replacing Obamacare. Once in office, he used every tactic to shred the plan from the inside out before attempting a legislative attack. Through Executive Order, he instructed administration officials "to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay" implementing parts of the Affordable Care Act, while Congress got ready to repeal and replace President Obama's signature health law.
When the bill finally came up for a vote in the Senate, the legislation to repeal of the ACA did not include a replacement, only a plan that would have thrown 12 million off the program, leaving them with no insurance at all.
This lack of a replacement forced the hand of Senator John McCain, who did not necessarily support Obamacare, but he did not want to throw people off the plan without a viable replacement.
During the late night vote in 2017, a repeal of the plan required only 1 more yes vote, but McCain walked out on the floor of the Senate and gave the repeal legislation the now famous “Thumbs Down” and saved the plan.
Trump was, over the next two years, able to make changes to the plan by eliminating the individual mandate, allowing states to mandate work requirements, ending subsidies to insurers, allowing the so called “Skinny Plans” with miniscule coverage and finally, slashed funding for the advertising program for enrollment.
After a slow roll out and some problems, the plan is highly successful and we have only one man to thank for saving it. Thank you John McCain, not Donald Trump, who did everything he could to gut and destroy the ACA.
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