Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren admitted on Saturday that she still benefits from the Affordable Care Act, and that most Republicans, "don't believe that every single tenet of Obamacare is bad."
In a debate with liberal comedian Chelsea Handler at Politicon, a Comic-Con-like convention for politics, Handler was asked, "Do you have a healthcare plan or no?"
She replied, "Luckily I am 24 so I am still on my parents' …"
The ACA allows young adults to stay on their parents' healthcare plans until they are 26. Some members of the audience began to jeer the conservative commentator for her benefiting from the ACA despite disparaging its as "fail[ing] the very people that it's intended to help" in the past, according to The Washington Post.
"To say there are things from Obamacare that are not positive, that's not true," Lahren said after the audience had quieted. She added that most Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump "don't believe that every single tenet of Obamacare is bad."
Lahren also said that she agrees with the provision that raised the age limit, but that she would be "okay" without it.
"I don't need it. If it's for the betterment of a free market system."
She then argued that Obamacare is in a "death spiral."
Handler later brought up Trump's tweet about transgender people in the military, which Lahren said she supported.
"For me, reinstating the ban on transgenders in the military was a very positive step," she said, prompting more shouts from the audience. "It's not because I have anything against trans people. I don't care what the hell you do, I don't want to pay for it."
She later compared trans soldiers to those with asthma, and said that the armed forces are "not the place for a social experiment," adding that "gender dysmorphia" is a psychological disorder.
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