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Jake Auchincloss: “We closed [the donut hole] under Biden.”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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One SouthCoast Chamber Breakfast with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 40:33

… cover it, but then the insurance company would turn around and ask you to cover it again for the rest of the drug cost. That was called the donut hole. We closed [the donut hole] under Biden. We said, no, no, no, no. If you're an insurance company, the whole deal here is when someone's healthy, they're paying you premiums, but when they're sick, you pay for their medicine. (40:33–40:35)

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Asserts that the Medicare "donut hole" was closed under President Biden's administration.

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