Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 39

Let insurers sell health plans across state lines

Never delivered
“[paraphrase] Get Congress to allow the sale of health insurance across state lines.”
Promised
, Campaign health care plan and Republican primary debates
Re-promised
12 times with a fresh deadline
Topic
Health care
Era
2016 campaign

What happened

Congress never passed legislation permitting interstate sale of health plans. States continued to regulate insurance under the McCarran-Ferguson Act, and PolitiFact rated the promise broken in July 2020, noting that states still oversee insurance rules.

Sources

  1. Get Congress to allow health insurance across state lines PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020