Markwayne Mullin: “Democrats decided to go out and say, hey, since it's so…”

“So they're charging everybody a premium price to cover the mandates rather than the insurance be able to be written for the individual. And then on top of that, you had the Democrats decided to go out and say, hey, since it's so expensive in 2021 because of COVID we're simply going to do a premium tax. and we're going to pay the insurance companies to keep their premiums low. But that didn't happen either. We still saw the increase.” (03:05–03:21)

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