Vance claims Trump 'salvaged' Obamacare. Trump tried, and failed, to kill it.
Vance claims Trump 'salvaged' Obamacare. Trump tried, and failed, to kill it.
When Trump was president, Republicans fought to repeal the health insurance program.
When Trump was president, Republicans fought to repeal the health insurance program.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed Tuesday night — in contradiction of history — that his running mate, former President Donald Trump, “salvaged Obamacare,” the health insurance program that Trump tried to kill.
During the vice presidential debate on CBS against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vance, a senator from Ohio, echoed Trump’s own recent revisionism. But the assertion also served to remind voters that Democrats ultimately won the yearslong political fight over expanding access to health insurance: The Republican ticket no longer wants to repeal the 2010 law.
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Didn't John McCain famously save it by breaking off to vote with Dems against Trumps wishes?
Yup. Plus Trump tried to repeal it on day one through executive order because he doesn't know how anything works.
Walz pointed out both of these last night.
Trump was just stress-testing it, see, he helped!
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Yes, but shortly after he cast his vote to end the individual mandate, causing less people to be insured and costs to rise.
Yeah. And then MAGA threatened to kill him for it afterwards. Totally normal people that lot
Yup. Right before his passing a few months later.
Yeah. Tim Walz mentioned that in the debate.
It was interesting, but not surprising, that he said both that Obamacare was a failure, and that they would protect all the parts of it that people enjoy.
I liked "we don't need Obamacare because we have legislation protecting people with preexisting conditions"
Yeah, that would be Obamacare.
Trump and the GOP are directly responsible for killing the part of ACA that required people to have insurance in 2017. That is what allowed all the young healthy people to drop their insurance which caused costs to go up for everyone else. It de-socialized it.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act
Obama was right. Once people lived with the ACA, they wouldn’t want to go back. The GOP knows that now, so now they’re going to pretend that they fixed it.
All Donnie had to do was get his Congress to vote in some meaningless changes, and then proclaim that he'd 'fixed Obamacare' and take a victory lap. Put TrumpCare on the site and tell his MAGoos to sign up.
tbf, them taking responsibility for other people's accomplishments has gotten fairly common in recent years. They need to be able to show something to their voters asides tax cuts for the rich, half-built walls and bans of Muslims entering the country that get struck down in court. So why not steal credit for other people's successes?
Btw, did you all know that I'm actually the lead dev of Mastadon? Yep, it was just some barely-running service before I came along, and I got it fixed right up. Look at how good my project is doing! I'm just the greatest, aren't I?
Doesn’t everyone on both sides already know this? Is journalism just stating the obvious now? Is this how we are going to be fed from now on?
Man. That’s sad.
When one side of the political spectrum continually lies about literally everything, stating the obvious has basically become the job of journalists.
No. People who watch Fox News exclusively don’t know this. It’s the problem with that channel in particular.
Failure = success!
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Don't they have a concept of a plan? Rolls eyes
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Just Doubledown Vance
That plan has been 2 weeks away for a fucking decade.