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John Thune: “People are making five or six hundred thousand dollars a…”

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

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MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Thune considers future vote on extending health care subsidies

Published | Video Starts at 02:00

So they are over and above the base Obamacare program, which was available to people up to 400% of poverty. What the Democrats did a couple of years ago is they took the income cap off. So now you got People are making five or six hundred thousand dollars a year that are eligible for, qualifying for and getting subsidies under this program. You also got insurance companies that are benefiting enormously because they get, they're incentivized to sign people up because the federal government is making direct payments to the insurance companies. (02:00–02:08)

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Asserts that individuals with high incomes are receiving subsidies under the ACA program.

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