Al Franken actually said...

the reason we put it at 30 and the reason that the tradeoffs are such that 40 makes so much less sense is because, as the CBO scored it and looked at it, this would take insurance away from 500,000, and up to a million.

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Franken argues that setting the threshold at 30 hours prevents loss of insurance for many.

01/21/2015

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