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John Thune: “The Government Accountability Office just did an audit of…”

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

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Thune Joins Bret Baier on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 02:12

And so people are automatically, they're auto enrolled by the insurance companies. And there's no accountability in this program. And The Government Accountability Office just did an audit of this program and of the 20 fake claims they submitted, 19 of them got approved. That's a 95% failure rate. So it's got to be reformed. And we're open to that. And if the Democrats want to work with us, we won't get it done before the Christmas holiday. (02:12–02:20)

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Asserts that a GAO audit found a 95% failure rate in approving fake claims in the Obamacare program.

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