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Ron Johnson: “The Senate had three opportunities to allow an employer…”

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

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Senator Johnson OPM Lawsuit Press Conference

Published | Video Starts at 22:24

Some have lost individual policies, but people are already losing their employer sponsored care. And the special treatment is if you lose employer sponsored care as an ordinary citizen, you lose your tax … The Senate had three opportunities to allow an employer contribution [to healthcare plans] and rejected it. … were to take on this issue instead of letting the Obama administration change things, what's the right outcome here? Get rid of the subsidy, get rid of the grasshopper provision altogether. (22:24–22:39)

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Asserts that the Senate considered and rejected employer contributions to healthcare plans three times.

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