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

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

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James Lankford Addresses Senate's Recess Amid Delayed ACA Vote And Skyrocketing Premiums

Published | Video Starts at 01:03

That's the challenge that we're facing. Just in my state, 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 had just been hidden with one subsidy after another after another to try to hide the problems that are there. (01:03–01:09)

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Asserts that non-Obamacare insurance prices increased by 29% over the same six-year period.

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