AARP prez inadvertently makes case against ObamaCare

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AARP was one of the biggest backers of ObamaCare, but on Friday the group’s president seemed to undercut one of the central elements of the national health care law.

Despite polls consistently showing older Americans more opposed to Obama’s national health care plan than any other age group, AARP lobbied for it. The group could stand to rake in an additional $166 million in 2014 alone as a result of the law, according to a House GOP report released ahead of the hearing.

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