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Virginia Foxx: “Forty-eight million Americans did not have health care before the Affordable Care Act.”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
Forty-eight million Americans did not have health care before the Affordable Care Act.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Foxx highlights the number of uninsured Americans prior to the ACA.

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