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Mike Johnson: “Premiums have risen, by some estimates 60% since 2010 when…”

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 19:45

They wanted the government to take over healthcare. And so in a short period of time, it became obvious that that would be the inevitable result. But now we're 15 years into it. Premiums have risen, by some estimates 60% since 2010 when [Obamacare] was signed into law. and it did exactly the opposite of what was promised. But the sinister thing about Obamacare is, and the way the architects did this, it was diabolical. (19:45–19:50)

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Asserts a 60% increase in premiums since the signing of Obamacare.

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