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Shelley Moore Capito: “These so-called premium subsidies, they don't lower the cost…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Speech on Senate Floor on Healthcare Reform

Published | Video Starts at 07:26

Hardly. That whole argument is getting lost on this. A system that they admitted, have admitted on this floor has not been working and it has irrational demands. So These so-called premium subsidies, they don't lower the cost of health care, they simply shift the cost onto the taxpayer. And under the proposal, wealthy families, people making hundreds of thousands of dollars would now qualify for taxpayer funded health care. (07:26–07:34)

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Asserts that premium subsidies shift healthcare costs to taxpayers rather than lowering them.

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