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John Thune: “There are no income caps. There are zero dollar premiums…”

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

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Thune Joins Bret Baier on Fox News

Published | Video Starts at 01:55

If you stay on this path right now with all the waste, fraud and abuse. The same thing is true today that I said last September and that is that There are no income caps. There are zero dollar premiums. There are literally millions of people in the exchange who don't even know they're covered because the payments go directly from the federal government to the insurance companies. And so people are automatically, they're auto enrolled by the insurance companies. And there's no accountability in this program. (01:55–02:06)

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Asserts that the Obamacare program lacks income caps and has zero dollar premiums, with millions unaware of their coverage.

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