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Lamar Alexander: “If you are looking for why health insurance costs are so high in our state, I would suggest to my Democratic friends…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
If you are looking for why health insurance costs are so high in our state, I would suggest to my Democratic friends, they need to look in the mirror because they voted for Obamacare, and prices are up 158 percent since then.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander blames Democrats for rising health insurance costs due to their support for Obamacare.

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