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On the recordNovember 19, 2013
While that has to do really with the fact that we are a community rating, we are limiting the insurance premium rate on older, sicker individuals and we are increasing the premiums, making the younger, healthier people pick up that burden, right? Is that not correct? Is that not redistribution?
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Ron Johnson
Republican · Wisconsin

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Johnson questions the fairness of premium increases for younger individuals under the ACA.

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