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Maria Cantwell: “Since the expansion of the premium tax credit in the…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Sen. Cantwell Spokane Health Care Affordability Event

Published | Video Starts at 13:05

… cost mean we're going to go back to more uncompensated care and without insurance and without uncompensated care, then the price affects everybody and the cost of insurance goes up. Since the expansion of the premium tax credit in the marketplace, exchange enrollment doubled. And we heard about that. And the participation jumped from 11 million people to 24 million people. So the uninsured rate in the United States dropped to its all time low of 7.9%. (13:05–13:12)

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Asserts that the expansion of premium tax credits led to a doubling of exchange enrollment.

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