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Harriet Hageman: “The subsidies did not go to the individuals to help pay…”

Featuring: Harriet Hageman, Republican | U.S. House Wyoming At-Large Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 09:29

Your name may very well be on an insurance company's roster of people that they're ostensibly covering because they get subsidies for you. Because the subsidies, these particular subsidies, when the Democrats passed this three years ago, The subsidies did not go to the individuals to help pay their health insurance. The subsidies were paid directly to the insurance company. So the more people that they had on the list, the better. So it is tens of billions of dollars that have been wasted and stolen from the American people through this entire program. (09:29–09:39)

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Asserts that Obamacare subsidies were paid directly to insurance companies, not individuals.

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