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Ron Johnson: “We were going to insure all the uninsured, about 30 million…”

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

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Senator Johnson on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Published | Video Starts at 27:31

Is proper health care a human right? Well, let's first go to the affordability aspect of it. Sure. There were two primary promise. Well, three primary promises of Obamacare. We were going to insure all the uninsured, about 30 million Americans. Best estimates right now, of those 8 million people who signed up, 27% were previously uninsured. But only half of those paid the premiums. So somewhere between 1 to 2 million previously uninsured Americans are now taking advantage of Obamacare. So we didn't meet that goal. (27:31–27:43)

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Asserts that only 1 to 2 million previously uninsured Americans are now insured under Obamacare.

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