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7 October
6:15 pm

A hundred and ten thousand Iowans having their health care pulled away.

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Josh Turek, at Iowa U.S. Senate General Election Debate

6:15 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure claiming 110,000 Iowans lost health care coverage — verifiable against enrollment and policy data.
What we foundThe claim that 110,000 Iowans are losing health coverage is an overstated approximation; the most credible independent analyses place the figure at roughly 96,000–107,000, with individual components (Medicaid only, ACA only) yielding considerably lower numbers.
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