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VIDEO: Obama tells man who can't afford ObamaCare to get rid of cable, cell phone



President Obama appeared on Spanish-language media the other day, including Telemundo and Univision, to promote ObamaCare signups. What he wasn't expecting, however, was a viewer challenging his assertion that ObamaCare is really "affordable". But the president was ready with a helpful suggesetion. Hey. If most of you people weren't spending all that money on your cell phones and cable TV, you could afford health insurance!

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It sounds like the sort of thing you might expect the president's political opponents to make up, so see for yourself:

Someone help me out here. If something is "affordable," shouldn't that mean that you don't have to cut fairly ordinary expenditures out of your budget to pay for it? Or is Obama telling the middle class he so often claims to champion that they have no business having cable TV and cell phones? It seems to me that if the Affordable Care Act really made health care affordable, the man who posed the question wouldn't be having this problem and he wouldn't be getting a hectoring lecture from the president about his decision to spend money on cable and phones. Could it be that ObamaCare is actually imposing costs on people who can't really afford them, and that there's nothing "affordable" about it? And this from the guy who has never come close to balancing a budget.


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