No Questions on Obamacare

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Vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News asked the candidates several questions on many important issues facing the country, including the terrorist attack in Libya, Iran, unemployment, Medicare, taxes, defense spending, Afghanistan, Syria, abortion, and what each candidate could “give to this country as a man.”

But notice what was absent from Raddatz’s questions–a specific question about Obamacare. In fact, according to a transcript of the debate, the term “Obamacare” was only mentioned 11 times, all of them by Paul Ryan. Ryan spoke about how the law infringes on religious liberties (something Joe Biden disputed) and how the program raids over $700 billion from Medicare to pay for the new entitlement under Obamacare.

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