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In June 2019, social media users began resharing a 2017 image originally tweeted by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, depicting a meeting between President Donald Trump and the U.S. House of Representatives' Freedom Caucus regarding the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a bill colloquially known as Trumpcare: Pence had shared the photograph immediately after participating in that meeting two years earlier: The image was authentic, albeit dated. The all-male group convened at the White House on 23 March 2017 to discuss stripping away coverage known as essential benefits mandated by the existing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare), which was passed during the administration of Trump's predecessor. Those benefits included coverage for pregnancy, maternity, and newborn care. While Trumpcare failed to pass the Senate and never became law, it prompted anger at the time because removing an essential benefit coverage mandated by existing law would have driven up health care costs for women, as news outlets such as the Guardian reported: The resharing of the photograph two years after the fact showed that the women whose prenatal and maternity benefits would have been directly affected had Trumpcare passed were no less angry about the proposal in 2019 than when it was touted by the all-male Freedom Caucus in 2017.
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