Marco Rubio tried to hit Donald Trump from every angle in Thursday night's debate, including the billionaire's legal troubles, his multiple bankruptcies and his companies' history of hiring both legal and undocumented workers instead of U.S. citizens.

But perhaps the prickliest barbs he lobbed at the front runner for the GOP nomination involved health care.

Rubio framed Trump's support for some elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, such as the individual mandate, as a betrayal of conservative ideology.

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