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Mark Pocan: “$300 billion worth, we were told, a 60 year old couple…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Congressman Mark Pocan Discusses Universal Healthcare with Dr. Speaker A and Trade Expert Laurie from RethinkTrade

Published | Video Starts at 27:49

It's because there's a subsidy available to do that. Now under the current administration, those subsidies are going to, a lot of them are going to go away. $300 billion worth, we were told, a 60 year old couple making 85,000 in my district on the Affordable Care act, the increase under the bill would be about $16,000 a year. So you know, if you're doing an extra 12, 1400amonth, you can't. Right. Yeah. You don't have health care or you're back into the problem of the medical debt and other issues. (27:49–28:04)

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