“If you don’t have the Affordable Care Act, people … with a preexisting cannot get insurance.”
What FactCheck.org found
Plenty of Americans with preexisting conditions had insurance before the ACA. Those with employer-based plans had some protections. Insurance policies on the individual market could deny coverage.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 25 August 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 September 2022, 8 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/26/remarks-by-president…
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