“I am for protecting pre-existing conditions. … I actually co-sponsored legislation to do just that.”
What PolitiFact found
Jacobs has co-sponsored legislation that restores some protections for people with pre-existing conditions if the Affordable Care Act is dismantled. It does not restore all of them.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Jacobs (Member of Congress) made this claim around 21 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 October 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Chris Jacobs has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTrLpw1qO2Y
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