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Biden Repeats Version Of PolitiFact’s ‘Lie Of The Year’: If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan

Tim Pearce
Biden Repeats Version Of PolitiFact’s ‘Lie Of The Year’: If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed falsely on Thursday night that not one American lost their private health insurance from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as Obamacare.

Biden repeated what the left-leaning fact-checker PolitiFact rated its 2013 “Lie of the Year” on a stage in Nashville during the second and final presidential debate of the 2020 campaign. Biden was responding to a question on his own health care plan, which includes much of the same structure as Obamacare, when he launched into an erroneous defense of the ACA.

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