Fact Check: Walz Falsely Claims Trump Won't Cover Pre-existing Conditions

Fact Check: Walz Falsely Claims Trump Won’t Cover Pre-existing Conditions


CLAIM: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed that former President Donald Trump would cancel health coverage for pre-existing conditions.

VERDICT: FALSE. Trump wants to cover pre-existing conditions. This is a false claim that has been fact-checked before.

Walz claimed at the vice presidential debate on CBS News on Tuesday night that Trump would cancel coverage for pre-existing health conditions. He cited Trump’s support for repealing Obamacare.

Breitbart News fact-checked this claim in 2020:

In his first address to Congress in 2017, Trump declared that his “first” principle in repealing and replacing Obamacare would be that “we should ensure that Americans with preexisting conditions have access to coverage.” Later that year, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a Trump-backed bill to repeal and replace

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