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Ron Johnson: “The design of Obamacare [is] to put as many Americans into…”

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

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Senator Johnson talks Obamacare on Hannity

Published | Video Starts at 04:42

Incentives for, in Obamacare are all for employers to drop the coverage, not pay $15,000 for a family plan, but pay the $2,000 penalty and make their employees eligible for the huge subsidies in the exchanges. So that was The design of Obamacare [is] to put as many Americans into those government-run exchanges. as the first step toward, toward a movement toward a single payer system. Yeah, well, Congressman, because the estimates, their own estimates in July of 2010 was 70% of individuals … (04:42–04:53)

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Asserts that Obamacare was designed to move Americans into government-run health exchanges.

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