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Ron Johnson: “The only people losing subsidies are people making over 400%…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:09

We're talking about the enhanced credits for the supposedly 24 million people on these changes. More than 22 million million will still get the Obamacare original subsidies, which were very generous. The only people losing subsidies are people making over 400% of the poverty line. That's about 1.6 million people. And I'm actually working with a couple of Democrat senators to address those individuals because they are facing unbelievably high premiums because of Obamacare. It is so destroyed the individual market. (01:09–01:16)

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Asserts that approximately 1.6 million people making over 400% of the poverty line will lose subsidies.

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