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Ron Johnson: “People earning above 400% of the poverty line got subsidies…”

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Published | Video Starts at 03:49

But specifically what's expiring right now, these enhanced subsidies, 22 of the 24 million people supposedly on the exchange, they just go back to Obamacare's original subsidy schedule. Still very generous. There's about 1.6 million people, People earning above 400% of the poverty line got subsidies on the enhanced subsidies. Those subsidies go away. And honestly I feel sorry for them. I'm willing to help them because a lot of these people were lured in retirement earlier. They don't qualify for Medicare. (03:49–03:52)

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