Mike Johnson: “Those provisions have helped to reduce premiums.”

“What we did in the bill, and the CBO just verified this three weeks ago. The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan arbiters of everything up here, they said that Those provisions have helped to reduce premiums. Why? Because we got ineligible recipients off of Medicaid, illegal aliens and able bodied young men who are riding the wagon who are not eligible to be there.” (01:53–01:56)

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