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Markwayne Mullin: “We were promised back in 2013 by Obama that the premiums…”

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

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Published November 9, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:58

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%. So throwing more money at the problem isn't going to fix it. Has President Trump gotten involved in the last 24 hours? He's always been involved. He's not ever not been involved. (03:58–04:03)

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Asserts that Obama promised a 25% decrease in premiums in 2013.

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