Jon Stewart Explains How the Recent Obamacare Fiasco Could Be Solved With Two Words
"You could salvage this entire fucking thing with a mediocre Scrabble hand," the "Daily Show" host shouts in exasperation.“You could salvage this entire fucking thing with a mediocre Scrabble hand,” the “Daily Show” host shouts in exasperation. Stewart is referring to the recent debacle over two Circuit Courts offering contradictory rulings on the wording in the Affordable Care Act, hailed by conservatives as an apocalyptic ending to Obamacare.
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