President Obama is citing a new figure when describing his landmark health law: 20 million.
That's the number of people who he says will lose health coverage if Republicans have their way and repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
If that number seems inflated, it's because it doesn't just include the number of people who gained insurance through the expansion of Medicaid or who purchased it on the federal and state marketplace exchanges. It also includes young people who can remain on their parents' plans until they are 26, a provision of the PPACA that has even been embraced by its opponents.
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