Markwayne Mullin: “This is costing the taxpayers $83 billion.”

“… Accountability Office GAO, they said that 90% of the fraudulent claims that are presented to the system right now is accepted. So there's 90% fraud rate in the system which This is costing the taxpayers $83 billion. And so they're saying they don't want any reforms to it. What we're saying is if you're really serious about trying to make the Affordable Care act actually affordable because it's been disastrous.” (01:38–01:46)

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