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Ron Johnson: “You can cover people with pre-existing conditions without…”

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

Sen. Johnson on CNN's New Day

Published July 27, 2017 | Video Starts at 05:42

Those are the forgotten men and women. Those are the people we're trying to bring premiums down. And you can do that. You can cover people with pre-existing conditions without collapsing insurance markets. Look at the main example where they had guaranteed issue. It drove their premiums up, I think by double. Then they instituted an invisible high risk pool. (05:42–05:47)

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Asserts that it is possible to cover pre-existing conditions without collapsing insurance markets.

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