Fact Check: Trump’s Misleading Claims on the Health Bill Failure -<br />By LINDA QIUMARCH 24, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — Reeling from a major blow to his legislative agenda, President Trump blamed Democrats on<br />Friday after House Republicans rescinded their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.<br />It is exploding right now.”<br />As Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz have reported for The Upshot, the Affordable Care Act’s insurance<br />markets are not “exploding,” “imploding,” “failing,” “collapsing” or in a “death spiral.”<br />While there are certainly issues with the current law (for example, high premiums and deductibles), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in its first estimate of the Republican bill<br />that both it and the Affordable Care Act would stabilize over the long run.<br />President Trump spoke from the Oval Office after Republicans pulled the House bill that was intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.<br />I guess it averaged — whatever the average was, very, very high.”<br />Six states — Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — saw increases in the range Mr. Trump referred to.<br />At a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, in October 2015, Mr. Trump said repealing the health law would be the “first thing” he would do as president.<br />While Mr. Trump never specified doing so within 64 days, killing the health care law was part of his 100-day plan, released in October,<br />and he often promised an even more urgent timeline during the 2016 presidential campaign.
