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John Thune: “The Obamacare market is expanding and expanding pretty…”

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

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Thune: Health Care 101: How Democrats' Policies Fail Patients and Families

Published | Video Starts at 07:30

If you're an employer, they're just responding to obviously what most employers do and that's a way to reduce their cost and to transfer that cost to the federal government. So the employer market, particularly small business market, is shrinking. At the same time, The Obamacare market is expanding and expanding pretty dramatically and premium cost about double of what you would see in the employer marketplace. So let's go to the next chart. And the thing that you got to remember here, Mr. President, is if you look at this was promised at the time when … (07:30–07:41)

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Asserts that the Obamacare market is expanding dramatically with premiums about double those in the employer marketplace.

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