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Mike Johnson: “It would bring the premiums down by 12%.”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins All Things with Kim Strassel (Wall Street Journal)

Published | Video Starts at 23:37

… bill, we had cost sharing reductions, which is a provision that, you know, would, would bring down the cost. It would save taxpayers about $30 billion in health care and It would bring the premiums down by 12%. The Senate Democrats, the same people who are kicking and screaming now and shutting the government down, pulled that provision out of the bill and refused to do it. (23:37–23:49)

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Asserts that cost-sharing reductions would reduce premiums by 12%.

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