Lie March 20, 2019 · Speech · Health care

“John McCain campaigned for years to repeal and replace Obamacare -- for years, in Arizona. … When he finally had the chance to do it, he voted against ‘repeal and replace.’ He voted against, at 2 o'clock in the morning. Remember ‘thumbs down’? We said, ‘What the hell happened?’ He said, two hours before, he was voting to repeal and replace. And then he went thumbs down, badly hurting the Republican Party, badly hurting our nation, and hurting many sick people who desperately wanted good, affordable healthcare. We would've had it. This would've saved our country over a trillion dollars in entitlements, and we would have ended up making a great healthcare plan, frankly, with the Democrats because they would have had no choice.”

Said
March 20, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Health care
Repeated
51 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 9359)

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