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Jeanne Shaheen: “Because of the changes that this administration has made in…”

Featuring: Jeanne Shaheen, Democratic | U.S. Senate New Hampshire

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U.S. Senators Baldwin, Schumer, and Shaheen Call On GOP to Pass Affordable Care Act Tax Breaks

Published | Video Starts at 26:10

So that's what the insurance companies are looking at as they're looking at increasing rates. They're looking at the fact that Because of the changes that this administration has made in health care coverage, it's going to mean that fewer people, healthy people are going to be in the risk pool and those costs are going to go up. That's the problem we had before we passed the Affordable Care act, as I know Senator Baldwin remembers, because health insurance had gotten so expensive that the average family couldn't afford it. (26:10–26:25)

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Asserts that changes in health care coverage will result in fewer healthy people in the risk pool, increasing costs.

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