Biggest Lie of the Night? Joe Biden Says No One Lost Their Health Insurance Under Obamacare
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told a brazen lie about Obamacare Thursday evening during the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, claiming that no one lost their private health insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act.
President Donald Trump attacked Biden’s health care plan, accusing the Democratic nominee’s plan of being “socialized medicine” that would terminate “180 million” private insurance plans.
In response, Biden said that if the Supreme Court declares Obamacare unconstitutional he will pass new health care legislation “with a public option.” He declared his support for private health insurance, arguing that a public option would increase competition by giving private health insurance plans something to compete against. . .
“The reason why I had such a fight with 20 candidates for the nomination was I support private insurance,” Biden said. “Not one single person with private insurance would lose their insurance under my plan, nor did they under Obamacare. They did not lose their insurance unless they chose they wanted to go to something else.”
Biden’s claim is demonstrably false. After the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2013, more than 5 million Americans received cancellation letters from their insurance companies, informing them that the health insurance plans they had did not meet the standards of Obamacare. (Read more from “Biggest Lie of the Night? Joe Biden Says No One Lost Their Health Insurance Under Obamacare” HERE)
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