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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  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    Didn’t John McCain famously save it by breaking off to vote with Dems against Trumps wishes?

    • snooggums
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      733 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      Yes, but shortly after he cast his vote to end the individual mandate, causing less people to be insured and costs to rise.

    • Tony Bark
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      73 months ago

      Yup. Right before his passing a few months later.