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Markwayne Mullin: “Affordable health care is not affordable. Currently, without…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Why would we continue to do something that I would consider insanity, I mean, definite insanity is doing the same thing, expecting different results. Affordable health care is not affordable. Currently, without the premium increase, it's went up by 221%. That's rough. There's no reason why we should have insurance premiums going up that much when we were promised back in 2013 by Obama that the premiums would go down 25%. (03:43–03:52)

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Asserts that healthcare costs have increased by 221% without premium increases.

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