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John Cornyn: “The taxpayer is paying the premiums for those people who…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cornyn Exposes Expanded Obamacare Subsidies Fraud Scheme

Published | Video Starts at 04:15

And we've been automatically re enrolling people year after year through this system. And what I hear my Democratic colleagues saying is we need to stay The taxpayer is paying the premiums for those people who don't even know they've been signed up on ACA. the taxpayer is. Paying the full premium. And the ACA overall now 85% of the revenue that insurers collect comes from the federal taxpayer. So the insurer main client is the federal taxpayer. (04:15–04:22)

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Asserts that taxpayers fund premiums for unaware ACA enrollees.

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