Ron Johnson: “A very small slice, about 5% of the American population is…”

“Medicaid expansion for able bodied, working age childless adults putting at risk for, from my standpoint, traditional Medicaid for the elderly, disabled and children. Obamacare is primarily about the individual market. A very small slice, about 5% of the American population is on the individual market [under Obamacare]. And yet Obamacare's faulty architecture was causing that small slice of the American population to bear the full social cost of covering people with high costs from pre existing conditions.” (01:54–02:01)

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