GETTING THE FACTS

244-185, with every Repub- lican voting “yes.”

■ H.R. 569, a 2015 bill with a lengthy name but the same stated purpose: to repeal the ACA. This bill, however, spoke of “replacement legislation” and ordered that four separate House committees work on new components. One of provisions lawmakers would work on if the broader repeal bill passed first: “Pro- vide people with pre-existing conditions access to affordable health coverage.” On a partisan vote, H.R. 569 passed the House 239-186.

Chabot says those votes in isolation

agenda that included “guaranteeing people with pre-ex- isting conditions can get affordable coverage.”

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to assure any such replace- ment bills would ever get a hearing, much less a vote, Sarah Topy, Pureval’s campaign manager, said in an email to PolitiFact. It was just more rhetoric, she said.

The GOP didn’t mean it

replace when there won’t be a repeal.”

The nature of the bills and the addition of replacement language changed, he said, once Republicans regained a Senate majority and then Donald Trump was elected president. With a real chance of passage, Rizzuto said, the bills focused more specifically on individual elements.

He added that while Pureval attacked Chabot on pre-existing conditions, he did so without ever mentioning that the actual votes were on Obamacare. “Aftab is relying on votes repealing an unpopular program, without ever mentioning that program (Obamacare),” Rizzuto said. “This is intentional, because tying the issue to Obamacare repeal would directly undermine his attack in this district.

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