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On the recordApril 28, 2010
We will start by reducing premiums as much as $2,500 a family. If somebody told me that, I am saying I like that. Our expenses, we go through a lot of money with a bunch of kids and health care. If you are going to reduce my premiums by $2,500 a family, that is a great promise if it is any good. And yet after making this promise, now here we go, not only the Congressional Budget Office which is our bean counters, Republican and Democrat bean counters in the House and Senate, our guys, and this Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is the administration's, it is Obama's bean counters, are saying it is going to reduce the premiums by as much as $2,500, both of these offices are saying that the insurance premiums will increase under the Obama care, not decrease by $2,500, it is going to increase and it is going to increase by, I think they are saying--let's see, here it is: Americans who buy their own health insurance plans will pay an average of $2,100 a year more for their policies. So if you are somebody going out and buying your health insurance, instead of decreasing by $2,500, it is going to increase by $2,100.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health insurance premiums.

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