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Ron Johnson: “The reason insurance premiums are skyrocketing, the…”

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

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Ron Johnson: "quit arguing about everything" | Wisconsin's Afternoon News

Published | Video Starts at 04:22

How do you respond to that? It just shows what a miserable failure Obamacare is. It was designed to fail to move everybody into a single payer system. Again, The reason insurance premiums are skyrocketing, the individual changes because the faulty design of Obamacare. There's a much better way of doing this. There always was. For example, Wisconsin had a high risk pool. You could have tweaked a little bit to cover pre existing conditions more fully. (04:22–04:30)

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Asserts that the design of Obamacare is causing insurance premiums to rise.

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