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Ron Johnson: “Subsidies paid for by hard working taxpayers and again…”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson on Obamacare

Published | Video Starts at 01:04

Nobody's concentrating here in this process on how do you bring down those premiums to more reasonable levels. Again, the subsidies are there though, to help with the premiums. Will they be there to help? Well, the Subsidies paid for by hard working taxpayers and again, subsidies that we're paying because premiums have doubled. (01:04–01:12)

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Asserts that subsidies are funded by taxpayers due to doubled premiums.

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