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Ron Johnson: “About 2.6 million Americans lost their health insurance plan…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson Opening Statement at Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Published | Video Starts at 02:27

I've seen them as high as, I think maybe 8 million. But let's be conservative and go to the Urban Institute. Their most recent study said that About 2.6 million Americans lost their health insurance plan [due to the Affordable Care Act]. in Wisconsin. Certainly we had Something called the high risk pool. Everybody that wrote, anybody involved in the writing of the patient protection Affordable Care plan knew high risk plans are going to be eliminated. (02:27–02:32)

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