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Kevin Hern: “The subsidies will lower that [cost increase] by anywhere…”

Featuring: Kevin Hern, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 1st Congressional District

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In Depth: U.S. Representative Kevin Hern discusses government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 08:15

The Kaiser Family foundation, not our local Kaiser Family foundation that looks at this and been doing it for 30 years, said the costs are going to increase on average, across America, about 40 to 50%. The subsidies will lower that [cost increase] by anywhere from 5 to 10%. So it's, and that's just for that group. And so it's not one of these things where we're actually fixing the problem. We're just again, what we do so well in this country many times over. (08:15–08:19)

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Asserts that subsidies will reduce the predicted cost increase by 5-10%.

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