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Join NowYour Guide to Debunking Conservative Lies About Obamacare
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Now that the holiday season’s in full swing, your conservative relatives have started bashing the Affordable Care Act over pumpkin pie and hot mulled wine. Here’s a quick cheat sheet to set the record straight:
- Obamacare is NOT government-run healthcare. Obamacare is a law, not healthcare; it regulates health insurance, not healthcare. As always, insurance companies are the ones providing coverage.
- It adds NOTHING to the deficit. It’ll actually reduce the deficit over the next decade!
- If your premiums went up, it’s your insurer’s fault –– not Obama’s. Kaiser Family Foundation’s president has said the ACA isn’t why premiums have gone up, according to US News.
- The Obamacare website cost about $70 million. Not $634 million. And certainly not $24 billion, which is how much the government shutdown cost Americans.
- Obamacare covers birth control, not abortion. Plan B is emergency contraception, NOT an “abortion pill” like Fox News would have people think.