Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Starting today, people's premiums are going to be doubling.”

“We are here to make sure that people can afford their insulin. And we can't allow all of this nonsense to distract us from the fact that Starting today, people's premiums are going to be doubling. I was hearing from some folks last night who are already working in Medicare and they're working in insurance industries and 80 year olds and 90 year olds are going to be seeing their insurance premiums go up by 100%.” (01:48–01:52)

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