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7 Myths About Obamacare, Debunked

Aaron Bandler

As the Republicans are getting ready to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Obamacare apologists are naturally spreading myths about the failed healthcare law to try and intimidate Republicans from repealing it. Here are seven myths about Obamacare and why each of them is false.

1. 20 million people will have the rug pulled out from under them if Obamacare is repealed. This is the most common refrain from Obamacare’s apologists, as they howl about how these 20 million are going to lose health care as a result of Obamacare’s repeal. But as Betsy McCaughey has pointed out in The Hill, the vast majority of these 20 million people are enrolled through Medicaid:

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