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“If Republicans ever repealed the Affordable Care Act, that would mean "100 million Americans with preexisting conditions can once again be denied health care coverage by their insurance companies.”
Joe Biden President of the United States. White House. Claim dated 5 Apr 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading

What FactCheck.org found

Those Americans could only be denied coverage on the individual market. Employer-based plans, the largest source of insurance in the U.S., couldn't deny an insurance plan to employees before the ACA.

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In short

Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 5 April 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 April 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.

Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.

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