In a brazen attempt at rewriting history, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance claimed during Tuesday night’s debate that former President Donald Trump was working to “salvage” the 2010 health care law while in office. “He saved the very program from a Democratic administration that was collapsing and would have collapsed absent his leadership,” Vance, an Ohio senator, said. “He did his job which is govern in a bipartisan way and get results.
” Trump’s clear intent, along with Republicans when they controlled both the House and Senate during the first two years of his term, was to repeal and replace the law which is often referred to as Obamacare. The then-president held a preemptive victory celebration at the White House when one version of a bill to repeal the law passed the House, and at one point pushed for repealing now and replacing later if Senate Republicans could not coalesce around an alternative. Of course, none of the repeal efforts did pass the Senate, with the late Sen.
John McCain, R-Ariz., casting a dramatic deciding no vote with a thumbs down on a reconciliation measure that would have provided what came to be known as the “skinny repeal” effort. The Trump administration also sought to undermine the intent of the law through regulatory policy.
Vance was asked about past comments he made about the 2010 health care law — specifically for details on his comments about insurance risk pools. He has suggested changes to the law that wo.
