President Donald Trump falsely claimed Tuesday that Republicans would "totally protect" people with pre-existing conditions, and "Democrats will not!"
But his comments don't square with the facts and Democrats are seizing on the issue with less than two weeks away to midterm elections.
In particular, Democrats are pointing to the Trump administration's decision not to defend the Obama-era law or its protections for pre-existing conditions in court. And they are sounding the alarms on a move this week by the Trump administration that would allow states to circumvent legal requirements on health care insurance plans, even as federal officials insisted Tuesday that those protections remain intact.
