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At an event in Miami, President Obama addressed the audience to talk about Obamacare and health care reform.

To better clarify his point about making changes to the (often criticized) Affordable Care Act, the president used Samsung’s faulty phone as an example.

If a company releases a device with bugs, they fix it, he said. “Unless it catches fire. Then you pull it off the market. But you don’t go back to using a rotary phone! You don’t say, ‘Well we’re repealing smartphones,”, he said.

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Samsung’s newest handset, the Galaxy Note 7, was released to stellar reviews followed by its very sudden downfall.

While many claim the phone was Samsung’s best yet, reports of the device catching fire tainted the company’s image.

Then, a recall was hampered by the “fixed” phones also catching on fire. Samsung may have to wait until the 2017 release of their Galaxy S8 before it can salvage from the flames whatever is left of the brand.

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