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Hakeem Jeffries: “Health insurance costs are going to increase for people who…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries on NPR's Morning Edition with Michel Martin

Published | Video Starts at 02:49

And so over the next few weeks, it will become readily apparent to people throughout America why it is so important for Congress to act to extend the Affordable Care act tax credits. And by the way, Michelle, Health insurance costs are going to increase for people who receive assistance through the tax credits on the Affordable Care act as well as people who receive their health insurance from their employer. as well. Why is that? Well, because there's one system, and to the extent that you begin to remove people from health insurance in numbers that would be contemplated more than 20 million, perhaps that's the number of Americans who. (02:49–03:03)

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Asserts that health insurance costs will rise for both ACA tax credit recipients and employer-insured individuals.

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