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Marsha Blackburn: If something is taxed, and there is $165 billion in taxes and fees on health plans, plans sold on the Federal exchanges…

On the recordJuly 31, 2013
If something is taxed, and there is $165 billion in taxes and fees on health plans, plans sold on the Federal exchanges, drug manufacturers, and medical devices, and then loaded down with mandates, which guaranteed issue, community rating, essential health benefit requirements, it is absolutely going to be more expensive.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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Blackburn argues that taxes and mandates in Obamacare lead to higher costs.

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