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Ron Johnson: “There's about 1.6 million people that actually have a great…”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson: We have a health care financing problem

Published | Video Starts at 06:28

So you got 18 million people on the exchange. More than 16 million. Just revert to original Obamacare subsidies. Okay? If you don't like those, you don't like Obamacare. There's about 1.6 million people that actually have a great deal of sympathy for these are people above 4% of poverty line. They got lured into retirement during COVID because they did have subsidies. Those go away. So those people are near retirement. (06:28–06:35)

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Asserts that about 1.6 million people above 4% of the poverty line are affected by subsidy changes.

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