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Edward Markey: “Those rates [for health insurance] are going to skyrocket.”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 17:20

So I just released a report yesterday where 10 million American small businesses or their employees are right now going to be losing the Affordable Care act support for their health insurance. And Those rates [for health insurance] are going to skyrocket. So those are American businesses. Is Donald Trump going to step in to help our American small businesses? And by the way, they're Rotarians, they're Kiwanians, they're the local chamber of commerce. (17:20)

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