AP FACT CHECK: Trump considers 20 million people 'very few'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

AP FACT CHECK: Trump considers 20 million people 'very few'

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Feb. 24, 2017 1:56 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that his predecessor's health care law covers "very few people" as he minimized the impact of replacing it. That's only true if you consider more than 20 million people to be very few.

He took another mysterious poke at Sweden, too, and decried open U.S. borders that are not.

Here's a look at his statements at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday:

TRUMP: "Obamacare covers very few people."

THE FACTS: More than 20 million people are covered by the two major components of former President Barack Obama's health care law: expanded Medicaid and subsidized private health insurance.

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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e8dc5db6094940c18e183ee866f30c8f/ap-fact-check-too-much-credit-going-president-trump

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The more who die or suffer from their actions the better for the GOP

their base will love watching poor people suffer and die.

[atreides1]

3. One problem

Some of the GOP base are going to die, as well! And I'll bet that they are the die hard Republicans...that the GOP will need to survive!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Not really. They will die, yes. But the GOP will simply say the following:

"We didnt want to do this, we really didnt, but Obama fucked it up real bad and we had no choice"'

They wont tell them that it was Marco Rubio who put in a provision that guaranteed the ACA would eventually fail or that they could easily change that part of it and make it work perfectly.

They wont tell them any of that, they will lie to them while they are killing them and they will rely on their base being racist enough to buy it.

Same thing with Soc Sec and Medicare, just watch.

[librechik]

2. so if someone told you there were 20 million at the inauguration, that was a small turnout.

At last sort of truth from sort of somewhere.

[BarackTheVote]

5. How many more would lose coverage

due to preexisting conditions? Or due to their inability to pay for it? Or because they're in their early twenties and can no longer be on their parents' insurance policy?

[bigbrother05]

6. Well, a nearly 3M popular vote deficit was a YUGE win, so yeah, 20M is very few

[Ilsa]

7. But deporting 11 million undocumented workers & foreigners is yuuuuuge!!! nt