“I’ll be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all pre-existing conditions for all customers. ... This has never been done before.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to those with preexisting conditions or charging them higher premiums.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 7 August 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 August 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “ACA Already Did That”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-briefing-be…
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