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Fox News advances false GOP claim that premiums under their plan would be $5,000 lower than Dems' plan

Media Matters for America | by J.V.B. | Thu, Nov 5

Thu, Nov 5 In reports on Fox & Friends and America's Newsroom, Fox News advanced the false House Republican claim that "[t]he CBO estimates that health insurance premiums would be nearly $5,000 cheaper under the Republican reforms than the Democratic ones," in Fox News' Martha MacCallum's...

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