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Over the past year, Democrat-controlled media has been constantly drilling defenses of the Affordable Care Act into our heads. 4/20

“If Republicans repeal this bill, millions of people will lose their health insurance!” In fact, since the passage of the bill, 5/20

Republicans have acted as if the ACA is the worst legislation in history, while Democrats have acted like it’s God’s gift to medicine. 6/20

In reality, neither is even close to the truth. We all know that deep down, or we should, but many of us buy the rhetoric anyway. 7/20

“I’m ‘Team D’! I want my team to win, so I support the ACA, facts be damned!” (Also, the counter from “Team R”.) 8/20

In reality, as @mattbruenig shows here http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/06/matt-bruenig-many-people-will-obamacare-ahca-kill.html …, 9/20

over the next decade, the AHCA (the Republican “answer” to the Democrats’ ACA) will lead to the deaths of 540,000 Americans. 10/20

That’s awful. But the ACA will lead to the deaths of 320,000 Americans. And THAT is the evil of this system. 11/20