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On the recordOctober 29, 2013
Now it's either true or it's not true. And you can obfuscate and use big words but the fact is the president of the United States knowingly, I mean, if he'd gone to the country and said look, about 16 million of you are going to lose your insurance but, you know, it's for the better good of the country, he might not have gotten reelected so they chose a path that was profoundly wrong.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich argues that President Obama misled the public about healthcare insurance losses under Obamacare.

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