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On the recordJuly 15, 2015
What happens when you have individuals receiving subsidies that they have not earned, do not have a right to, when it is $1.7 trillion over the next 8 or 9 years, what that results in in South Carolina, what we have seen this past year, is between a 31-percent and as high on some plans as a 50-percent increase in premiums.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the financial impact of unearned subsidies on health insurance premiums in South Carolina.

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