Ron Johnson: “Premiums had quadrupled [in Tennessee] and of course 3/4 of…”

“I mean premiums continue to skyrocket in Tennessee for example. This is while we were going through the debate. I saw a study for a 40 year old male. Premiums had quadrupled [in Tennessee] and of course 3/4 of that reason was because of covering pre-existing conditions. which we can do without canceling guaranteed issue by actually implementing policies like invisible high risk pools like they have in Maine. So you actually have to be willing to tackle these problems.” (11:26–11:40)

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