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# President Trump Says Obamacare Repeal Will Put Republicans 'in a Bad Position’

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## Video: President Trump Says Obamacare Repeal Will Put Republicans 'in a Bad Position’

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_Published 2017-03-13. President Trump said Republicans are putting themselves in a "very bad position" by repealing the Affordable Care Act_


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## Transcript

And the Republicans, frankly, are putting themselves in a very bad position, and I tell this to Tom Price all the time, by repealing Obamacare, because people aren't gonna see the truly devastating effects of Obamacare, they're not gonna see the devastation in 17 and 18 and 19, it'll be gone by then, it'll Whether we do it or not, it'll be imploded off the map. So the press is making it look so wonderful, so that if we end it everyone's gonna say remember how great Obamacare used to be? Remember how wonderful it used to be, it was so great. It's a little bit like President Obama What he left people like him.

When he was here people didn't like him so much that's the way life goes. That's human nature

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