11 head-scratching things Trump said about health care this weekend

Has he read the American Health Care Act recently?

Donald Trump speaks in the White House
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President Trump spent much of the weekend talking about health care. On Saturday, he sat down with Face the Nation host John Dickerson and spoke about the GOP health-care plan in some detail. In the interview, he seemed to guarantee that the bill would protect people with pre-existing conditions. The American Medical Association and outside health policy analysts mostly disagree with this assertion.

While House Republicans were apparently short of votes for their newly revised American Health Care Act on Friday, GOP vote-counters now believe they will have enough votes to pass the bill this week, as early as Wednesday. Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), a key Trump ally in Congress, tells The New York Times that House Republicans won't seek a new Congressional Budget Office analysis of the bill before they vote; the last CBO score found that the AHCA would lead to 24 million fewer insured Americans in 10 years. Here, an annotated look at Trump's comments on health care over the weekend:

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.