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Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act, but he built it up, Sen. JD Vance says

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Sen. JD Vance (R- Ohio ) on “ Meet the Press : Donald Trump could have destroyed the Affordable Care Act , but “he chose to build upon [it].” Trump said of the ACA , “I saved it.” Both Vance and Trump ’s statements are false.

Most of the Trump administration's ACA -related actions involved cutting the program.

Sen. JD Vance said on “ Meet the Press’s Press ” that plan would involve “deregulating the insurance market” Critics say plan would let insurers do business as they did pre-ACA.

By the numbers, Affordable Care Act enrollment declined by more than 2 million people.

Number of uninsured Americans rose by 2.3 million , including 726,000 children, from 2016 to 2019 .

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