Clinton and Trump's Confusing Debate Exchange on ACA, Explained

Clinton and Trump's Confusing Debate Exchange on ACA, Explained
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The second presidential debate included a very lengthy — and very confusing — exchange over Obamacare between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. 

It left health policy experts, to put it mildly, somewhat bewildered.


The six-or-so minute segment included lots of winding talk about rising health costs, rising premiums, and repealing Obamacare. 

But it is possible to decode what actually happened. Clinton defended the Affordable Care Act while offering a blunter critique of the law than the Obama administration typically does — while Trump mostly attacked Obamacare for its costs, while offering an Obamacare repeal proposal that would leave millions uninsured.



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