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Elizabeth Warren: “Increases in insurance premiums are occurring literally…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Elizabeth Warren talks divide over health care as shutdown continues

Published | Video Starts at 01:01

But in July, the Republicans, all by themselves with no Democratic votes, voted to cut health care for 15 million Americans, just knock them off their health care coverage and voted to raise insurance premiums for tens of millions more. And those Increases in insurance premiums are occurring literally right now, this month in October. People are getting their notices. So Democrats said at the time when you passed that bill, it's going to come due because when we get ready to do the budget for the year, we're going to ask that that be rolled back. (01:01–01:08)

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Asserts that insurance premium increases are happening in October.

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