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Ted Cruz: “Barack Obama promised the American people Obamacare would…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 22:32

It's a bad program. And if you go back, go back to 2013, 2013, when I did a filibuster against Obamacare, I said at the time, if you remember, Barack Obama promised the American people Obamacare would cut the average family's premiums by $2500 a year. That was a lie. And in fact, they skyrocketed at the time. 5,000 a year. They've skyrocketed a lot more than that. Even the Washington Post has now admitted the editorial page. (22:32–22:50)

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Asserts that Obama's promise about Obamacare reducing premiums by $2500 was false.

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