Bill Maher Proves That New Yorkers Know Nothing About Obamacare

To mark the first day of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, Bill Maher sent his resident documentarian Alexandra Pelosi (daughter of Nancy) out to the streets of New York to find out what regular people know about the law. Like Jimmy Kimmel’s Los Angelenos, New Yorkers are apparently as uninformed about the law as everyone else.

From the man who couldn’t believe that the president would name Obamacare after himself to the woman who truly believes the government is going to implant computer chips in everyone’s arms, Pelosi discovered that even liberals in New York don’t trust that the Affordable Care Act will be a good thing for them.

With so many people in America’s biggest city so skeptical of Obamacare, what does that mean for the rest of the country?

Watch video below, via HBO:

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