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John Thune: “Obamacare massively failed in its aims.”

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

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Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day 29

Published | Video Starts at 11:19

You look at since 2013 to today what premium costs have done on the individual marketplace, on the exchanges. It is a line like this. Suffice it to say, as Democrats are now implicitly admitting that Obamacare massively failed in its aims. Democrats, of course now want to put a band aid on a gaping wound by extending the Biden Covid bonuses. (11:19–11:22)

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Asserts that the Affordable Care Act did not achieve its intended goals.

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