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Tammy Baldwin: “We knew that lower income people, especially working…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Getting rid of lifetime caps and annual. Caps and staying on your parents health insurance. That was a provision I wrote when I was in the House. I'm very proud of that. We knew that lower income people, especially working families, would need help. And the tax credits were a part of the original Affordable Care Act. And then during the pandemic when it was so essential to that more and more people have access to affordable health care, some were losing their employer sponsored health care. (07:24–07:38)

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Asserts that tax credits were included in the original Affordable Care Act to help lower-income families.

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