Vance claims Trump 'salvaged' Obamacare. Trump tried, and failed, to kill it.
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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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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 months ago

      I liked “we don’t need Obamacare because we have legislation protecting people with preexisting conditions”

      Yeah, that would be Obamacare.

      • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        Obamacare and the ACA is just the Hannah Montana of Republican healthcare policy. They are running on getting rid of the singer but promising to keep the Miley around. I’m high so I’ll stop now

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      2 months ago

      That’s sort of true, sort of not. The insurance companies were foaming at the mouth for this. It means they are unchecked in their march towards profit.

      This was going to raise the price of medical care regardless of whether healthy people were in it or not. We have an aging, fat, sick society and they require very expensive care.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 months ago

        We have an aging, fat, sick society and they require very expensive care.

        This is the exact reason why the mandate existed. Having all the young and healthy people paying into the insurance as well offsets the costs. That being said it would have been far better to have a public insurance run by the government that wasn’t beholden to profit. AKA M4A

        • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’m 100% for universal health, single payer, or whatever gets health insurance companies out of the game.

          But even if healthy people were forced into the system the ACA still makes private insurance unaffordable for regular people. If you don’t have an employee who’s sponsoring it, you’re fucked.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 months ago

        Good. I didn’t need health insurance.

        No one needs healthcare insurance, until they get sick or hurt. Do you have some knowledge of immortality and invulnerability the rest of humanity isn’t aware of?

        The rest of ACA was fine. Don’t force your shit on me then make me pay for it if I’m not participating. I was poor as hell.

        If you were that poor the ACA would pay for your health insurance for you…unless you lived in a state that decided to reject the free money the Federal Government gave states to pay for poor people’s coverage. If thats your case, your issue is with your elected state government.

      • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        The youth is already paying for the elderly. It’s called Medicare. The real question is whether the young people who are healthy pay for those that are less lucky.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    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?