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Ron Johnson: “We had high risk pool in Wisconsin. Worked very well.”

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

Johnson Lays Out Health Care Information on CNN

Published August 10, 2017 | Video Starts at 06:33

Well, you need much, much more money. It's very expensive to do high risk pool. Well, this shows it works. We had high risk pool in Wisconsin. Worked very well. We can work on the details of that. But the point being is what Obamacare did is forced a small percentage, about 5 to 6% of the American population to … (06:33–06:36)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's high-risk pool for insurance worked effectively.

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