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Ron Johnson: “You've got about 24 million people supposedly on these…”

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 06:04

Joe, I realize the siren song of socialism is very appealing, but it destroys economies, it destroys sectors of our economy. So again, by the way, the subsidies aren't going away. You've got about 24 million people supposedly on these [health care] changes. Six million of those are probably phantom accounts because of the zero premium policies. Massive fraud, 20 to 30 billion dollars a year fraud. So the people. So let's say you've got 6 million of the 24 million phantom. So you got 18 million people on the exchange. (06:04–06:12)

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Asserts that there are approximately 6 million phantom accounts among 24 million health care enrollees.

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