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Mike Johnson: “The rural hospitals that are in trouble right now are not…”

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

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Speaker Johnson Joins Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream

Published | Video Starts at 02:09

… qualify in some way that are going to risk, you know, losing kind of health care coverage. That the leader is talking about. There so much to be said there. The rural hospitals that are in trouble right now are not because of Republican policies. This is the legacy of what has happened under Obamacare. And you just heard the leader of the Democrats in the House acknowledge that Obamacare is unaffordable. We, when they passed it into law in 2010, they promised us it was going to make health care more affordable. (02:09–02:16)

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Asserts that current rural hospital issues are due to Obamacare, not Republican policies.

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