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Ted Cruz: “Under the original Obamacare, if you lacked the income to be…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 37:32

The combination of that drives prices through the roof. Now, we repealed the individual mandate and I was the one who led the fight to do that. So we successfully repealed the individual madnate. Under the original Obamacare, if you lacked the income to be able to afford healthcare, the consequence of that is the IRS would fine you. So you'd have an insult to injury. You didn't have the money to pay for health insurance and the IRS came and fined you. It was, it was idiotic policy. (37:32–37:42)

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Asserts that the original Obamacare fined those who couldn't afford healthcare.

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