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Listen: Did Americans lack health coverage 40 years ago?

By W. Gardner Selby January 29, 2014

Louie Gohmert, the Tyler congressman, said in an interview that 40 years ago, hardly anybody had health insurance.

Not so, PolitiFact found.

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