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🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 114 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Blaze Radio Network. |
| 0:05.0 | On demand. |
| 0:10.0 | Love. Courage. |
| 0:13.0 | Truth. |
| 0:14.0 | Glend back. |
| 0:15.0 | Susan had a decision to make. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a decision that millions of Americans are making. |
| 0:21.0 | She could buy health care for her and her husband or not. |
| 0:26.0 | It was a difficult decision because both options would hurt them financially. |
| 0:30.0 | She calculated she would have to spend more than $12,000 including premiums of nearly $500 a month and $6,850 deductible to get anything beyond preventive benefits from the cheapest exchange plan available through the quote affordable care act. |
| 0:52.0 | It wasn't affordable for her. |
| 0:56.0 | That was a great deal more than paying the $1500 tax penalty. |
| 1:02.0 | So, Susan decided to take her chance and not buy health care. |
| 1:05.0 | Instead, she would pay for her family's doctor's visits out of pocket and if something catastrophic were to happen, she said I feel like it's just better to die. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the beautiful health care designed by our government. |
| 1:21.0 | Maybe a little dramatic but Susan's situation is not unique in 2016, 6.5 million of us here in this country. |
| 1:31.0 | In order to comply with the individual mandate in Obamacare, decided just to pay the penalty instead of buying health care. |
| 1:40.0 | That's craziness. |
| 1:42.0 | The individual mandate has been unconstitutional. It's a nightmare since it was signed into law. |
| 1:48.0 | But today there is hope that we can forget this whole mandate fever dream for good. |
| 1:53.0 | The Senate Republicans have added the repeal of the individual mandate to their tax reform plan, which is a step in the right direction. |
| 2:04.0 | What will they do it and will everybody vote for it in the Senate? |
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