The biggest lie in Trump’s State of the Union speech
“ l have also made an ironclad pledge to American families,” Trump claimed. “We will always protect patients with preexisting conditions.”
The bad news for people with preexisting conditions is that this “ironclad pledge” is a lie. Trump and his administration have fought hard — in all three branches of government — to strip people with preexisting health conditions of the protections they enjoy under the Affordable Care Act. Indeed, if Trump has his way, those protections will cease to exist.