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Ron Johnson: “More than 20,000 Wisconsinites were on the high risk pool…”

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 02:48

Everybody that wrote, anybody involved in the writing of the patient protection Affordable Care plan knew high risk plans are going to be eliminated. So I think there are More than 20,000 Wisconsinites were on the high risk pool [and lost their plans due to the Affordable Care Act]. And again, the authors of Obamacare, I'll just start calling it Obamacare. They knew those individuals were going to lose their health insurance plans. (02:48–02:53)

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Asserts that over 20,000 Wisconsinites lost their high-risk pool plans due to the Affordable Care Act.

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