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Charles Krauthammer said Thursday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that the Affordable Care Act is “working in that it exists.”

His comments came after President Obama addressed reporters in the White House briefing room late Thursday, hailing new numbers from ObamaCare signups and declaring “this thing is working.”

Krauthammer disagreed, saying that ObamaCare “is hurting the doctor, hurting the hospital, hurting the patient, it’s hurting the economy, it’s going to cost a fortune.”

He also criticized the president’s comments about the reduction in health care costs, noting, “he makes this stuff up with a brazenness that is almost admirable.”