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Ron Johnson: “Obamacare is causing those 20 million people on the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:42

First of all, what they're talking about now is the ACA subsidies, the temporary Covid ACA subsidies. Remember, the reason why insurance is so expensive for the individual market is because of the faulty design of Obamacare. Obamacare is causing those 20 million people on the individual markets to pay a whole lot more. So basically we did is we took away any kind of participation in those Obamacare premiums from millions of people, which has led to massive fraud. (07:42–07:48)

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Asserts that Obamacare increases costs for 20 million people on individual markets.

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