“There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His [Donald Trump's] plan is to throw every one of them off that — that legislation.”
What FactCheck.org found
That worst-case-scenario figure is based on Trump not replacing the ACA with anything. He says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 28 November 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 December 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Spins the Facts”.
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
- Saved copy of the posthttps://web.archive.org/web/20231204155402/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speec…
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