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Ron Johnson: “Obamacare forced all the cost of covering people with…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 09:41

But there were serious issues that were predicted at the time and here we are, they're coming home to roost. And it's easy to explain. So Obamacare forced all the cost of covering people with preexisting conditions to the very small percentage of people, less than 10% of people on the individual exchange. as opposed to using high risk pools which were in existence. They worked. It could have been tweaked. We could have covered people with pre conditions without doubling, tripling, quadrupling the cost of health insurance for individuals again. (09:41–09:52)

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Claims Obamacare shifted preexisting condition costs to less than 10% of people on individual exchanges.

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