Fact Check: Trump’s Misleading Claims on the Health Bill Failure -
By LINDA QIUMARCH 24, 2017
WASHINGTON — Reeling from a major blow to his legislative agenda, President Trump blamed Democrats on
Friday after House Republicans rescinded their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
It is exploding right now.”
As Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz have reported for The Upshot, the Affordable Care Act’s insurance
markets are not “exploding,” “imploding,” “failing,” “collapsing” or in a “death spiral.”
While there are certainly issues with the current law (for example, high premiums and deductibles), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in its first estimate of the Republican bill
that both it and the Affordable Care Act would stabilize over the long run.
President Trump spoke from the Oval Office after Republicans pulled the House bill that was intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
I guess it averaged — whatever the average was, very, very high.”
Six states — Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — saw increases in the range Mr. Trump referred to.
At a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, in October 2015, Mr. Trump said repealing the health law would be the “first thing” he would do as president.
While Mr. Trump never specified doing so within 64 days, killing the health care law was part of his 100-day plan, released in October,
and he often promised an even more urgent timeline during the 2016 presidential campaign.
