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VA Dem Candidate Says Obamacare Has Made Health Care More Affordable, Crowd Breaks Out in Laughter
Townhall ^ | Oct 7, 2016 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 10/07/2016 8:04:16 AM PDT by fwdude

During a debate Thursday at the National Conference Center, the audience openly laughed at Virginia Democratic congressional candidate LuAnn Bennett when she attempted to tout Obamacare’s affordability.

“For the last 50 years, both parties have agreed that we have a health care crisis,” Bennett said. “By 2005, we had 47 million uninsured Americans, and health care costs had grown to 16 percent of our GDP. The Affordable Care Act has made health care more affordable [laughter] –and it’s created access,” she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 114th; 2016issues; aca; obamacare; va2016
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To: fwdude

Billy The Rapist told the truth for once - Obamacare is a Cat-5 failure. Only a fool or a parasite leftwing ideologue would think otherwise.


21 posted on 10/07/2016 8:32:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: NEMDF

Who doesn’t have to pay for it?


22 posted on 10/07/2016 8:33:56 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: fwdude

They have tried to ruin healthcare and it’s funny? Sick lot of people.

Time to smash their teeth in.

If I had a family member that died because of O-care I would be compiling my list of who was going to answer for it.


23 posted on 10/07/2016 8:36:25 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: fwdude

Don’t laugh. Don’t cry.

People need to get angry. Very, very angry about the fact that the Marxists have brought our nation to the brink of extinction


24 posted on 10/07/2016 8:38:42 AM PDT by WashingtonFire
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To: ETL
Bill Clinton has blasted President Obama’s signature piece of legislation — ObamaCare — as "the craziest thing in the world."

Wow, I guess it's true what they say about a stopped watch. I suppose that Bill will also tell us how much better Hilarity-care would have been.

25 posted on 10/07/2016 8:41:13 AM PDT by ssaftler (2016 Election: If the establishment wins, America loses.)
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To: 22202NOVA

That explains a lot. Did he divorce her, or she he? If she divorced him then I at least give her a small amount of credit, but then that credit would be wiped out because she married him in the first place.


26 posted on 10/07/2016 8:41:33 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: fwdude

Re-Elect Barbara Comstock, Frank Wolf’s old seat, even though she is GOPe:

https://www.barbaracomstockforcongress.com/issues/


27 posted on 10/07/2016 8:41:53 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: ETL

Someone forgot to make sure Bill took all of his meds that morning. The Hillary campaign normally keeps him drugged up enough to keep his mouth shut.


28 posted on 10/07/2016 8:43:26 AM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Some lies are primarily loyalty tests rather than deceptions.


29 posted on 10/07/2016 8:44:30 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Helicondelta

When Trump becomes president, we will see the so called achievements of Herr Obozo get exposed as dangerous frauds and revoked by Trump’s exec. orders.


30 posted on 10/07/2016 8:52:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Those whose income is low enough, get it free. Probably the same people who get huge earned income credit refunds or whatever, just by keeping their income low and have lots of children.

A relative was unemployed at the time of enrollment last year, and she was getting free health insurance due to that situation.


31 posted on 10/07/2016 8:53:27 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: ssaftler

I guess he just had an exceedingly rare “honest moment” in his life.


32 posted on 10/07/2016 8:58:26 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: econjack
Living proof that you don’t need a working brain to talk.

Or to successfully run for office (ex: Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, et al.)

33 posted on 10/07/2016 9:00:37 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: NEMDF
A relative was unemployed at the time of enrollment last year, and she was getting free health insurance due to that situation.

I'd like to know exactly what she got, though. A very low-income friend of mine also signed up for the cheapest premium plan, and he still can't afford to use it. (The "cheaper" the premium, the heftier the co-pays.)

34 posted on 10/07/2016 9:04:06 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: fwdude

“We’re surrounded by stupid people”

audio, Mark Levin:

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/10/we-are-surrounded-by-stupid-people-and-mark-levin-has-the-proof


35 posted on 10/07/2016 9:07:57 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: fwdude

Hah! She even stopped like she was waiting for laughter...maybe she didn’t realize this was in the little speech she was reading!


36 posted on 10/07/2016 9:13:21 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: fwdude
The Affordable Care Act has made health care more affordable

Looks like another "Stand Up, Chuck" moment. IDIOT!

37 posted on 10/07/2016 9:18:32 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Brilliant

It is not that the politicians on the left are clueless, on the right as well, it is that they think we are clueless and too stupid to know that what they spread around is nothing but pure bullshit


38 posted on 10/07/2016 9:18:46 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: ETL
"You’ve got this crazy system where all of a sudden, 25 million more people have health care, and then the people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half..."

That has got to be the first time that man has told the stone cold truth in his entire life. It's certainly the first time I've ever seen him do so.

Gotta admit, though, his timing is very shrewd. I th8nk Bill sees the fundamental problem with his wife's candidacy. She essentially represents a third Obama term, which is NOT what the people want. He sees that she must find some way to position herself as an agent of change, because Change is going to win this election.

39 posted on 10/07/2016 9:22:22 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

Maybe somebody slipped him a “tell-the-truth” pill when he wasn’t looking. Dropped it in his food or drink before he went on.


40 posted on 10/07/2016 9:38:30 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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