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Ron Johnson: “One of the estimates are 33,000 jobs have either not been…”

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

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Senator Johnson on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Published | Video Starts at 28:37

Obamacare, it is going to reduce the quality of care. It's going to lead to rationing. We're already seeing with the very ill advised medical device tax, One of the estimates are 33,000 jobs have either not been created or shipped overseas because medical device manufacturers, they're not investing in equipment. So that's kind of the first part of the question. The second part was, oh, the second tweet was about, is proper health care a human right? (28:37–28:47)

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Asserts that 33,000 jobs were affected due to the medical device tax under Obamacare.

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