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Obamacare Repeal Threatens A Health Benefit Popular In Coal Country

James Bounds is a West Virginia miner with black lung disease; it took him 4 1/2 years to get compensation benefits. A provision in Obamacare later made qualifying for those benefits much easier. (Kara Lofton/West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
James Bounds is a West Virginia miner with black lung disease; it took him 4 1/2 years to get compensation benefits. A provision in Obamacare later made qualifying for those benefits much easier. (Kara Lofton/West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

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