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applegrove

(118,462 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 11:34 PM Feb 2014

"FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key"

FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key

By Associated Press, at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/fact-check-anti-obamacare-chorus-is-off-key/2014/02/05/a4cc937e-8ea9-11e3-878e-d76656564a01_story.html

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A look at some of the Republican claims and how they compare with the facts:


SEN. MARCO RUBIO of Florida: “Just yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office found that Obamacare will cost millions of Americans their jobs.”

REP. JOHN KLINE of Minnesota: “The president’s health care law is destroying full-time jobs.... This fatally flawed health care scheme is wreaking havoc on working families nationwide.”

REP. PHIL GINGREY of Georgia: Obamacare creates “unprecedented uncertainty for job creators that, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, will leave millions of people looking for work in the next few years.”



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