In last week’s debate, Congressman Rodney Davis desperately tried to rewrite history on his disastrous health care record. Unfortunately for him, facts exist – as do voting records.
Will voters in Central Illinois hear the truth from Rodney Davis tonight? Not likely.
The statement that Davis voted 11 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no replacement is true. Dirksen Londrigan is referring to votes Davis cast from 2013 through 2017 that either took steps toward repealing the ACA or aimed to roll back all or part of the law. Two 2015 budget proposals that Davis supported included language ordering House committees to draft legislation to repeal the ACA. […]
Not counted among those 11 votes is Davis’ vote in support of the American Health Care Act, which would have guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions but would have provided states authority to allow insurers to charge some people with those conditions higher premiums, according to Kaiser Health News. While it may have been Davis’ intent to protect insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions under the AHCA, the Congressional Budget Office finds that if states took advantage of that provision, and others allowed under the bill, the insurance markets could blow up, leading to such high costs that people with pre-existing conditions would be unable to obtain coverage. This makes Davis’ claim that the bill would have “protected pre-existing condition coverage for every single American” false.”
As a reminder, this isn’t the first time Davis has been called out by independent fact checkers for “misleading voters” about his record on health care, even after being fact checked on their claims:
“Davis has “been put on notice that [he is] peddling a falsehood — and politicians who care about their reputation should acknowledge they made a mistake and offer an apology. Instead, [he] apparently believe[s] it is politically advantageous to continue to deceive the voters in [his] district.”
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