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John Thune: “Insurance rates in the individual marketplace have gone up…”

Featuring: John Thune, Republican | Senate Majority Leader, South Dakota

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Published | Video Starts at 04:47

And that's since 2014. If you go back to 2013, it's gone up 221% because insurance companies, when this program was introduced, automatically significantly increased and boosted their Insurance rates in the individual marketplace have gone up 221% since 2013. Obamacare since its inception a little over a decade ago. That, Mr. President, is double, double the rate of increase in the employer provided marketplace and triple, triple the cpi, which is the thing, the cost we pay for everything else out there. (04:47–04:59)

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