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Ron Johnson: “Democrats designed [the enhanced subsidies] to expire here…”

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

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SEN. RON JOHNSON: GOP UNVEILS OBAMACARE COUNTERPLAN

Published | Video Starts at 03:53

The other problem is the short term problem. It's more political. Democrats design. This is, you know, Obamacare is theirs. The enhanced subsidies, that's what they did. They Democrats designed [the enhanced subsidies] to expire here at the end of the year. But because they're expiring, Democrats done a pretty good job of scaring the American public into thinking that because Republicans refuse to extend those enhanced subsidies that everybody's premium is going to skyrocket. (03:53–04:06)

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Asserts that Democrats designed the enhanced subsidies to expire at the end of the year.

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