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James Lankford: “Normal insurance, commercial insurance for everybody else…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

Lankford Joins CNN Before Christmas to Highlight the Importance of Faith

Published December 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 01:26

That's the challenge that we're facing. Just in my state, we, we took a six year snapshot. The Obamacare marketplaces went up 198% during that time period. Normal insurance, commercial insurance for everybody else went up 29% during that time period. There are real structural problems in Obamacare that have just been hidden with one subsidy after another after another to try to hide the problems that are there. (01:26–01:32)

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Asserts that commercial insurance increased by 29% over the same six-year period.

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