Wednesday on “CBS This Morning,” while discussing the increasing costs of the Affordable Care Act referred to as Obamacare, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said people like some of his constituents in Minnesota “have a right to be mad about the price on the exchange.”
Franken said, “There are some people who, for example in Minnesota, who have a right to be mad about the price on the exchange. But it is not that — people get their health care through the exchange about 4%, 5%. About 80% to 85% of them get subsidies for taxes, tax credit. So it doesn’t — and the benefits, 20 million people extra covered. You can’t be turned down for pre-existing conditions. You can’t hit an annual cap, can’t hit a yearly cap, so you won’t go bankrupt if you get sick. All of these — and as far as health care costs, they have gone down.”
(h/t WFB)
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