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South Dakota Senator Pledges Against Current Affordable Care Act

South Dakota Senator Pledges Against Current Affordable Care Act

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Repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare will be one of the priorities of the new republican majority in the Senate next year.
South Dakota Senator John Thune, who is part of the republican leadership, says all of the newly elected republican Senators made the same campaign pledge.

Thune says the new republican majority will not be veto proof.

Thune says they will work to disrupt the insurance plan anyway they can.

Thune says they believe there is bi-partisan support to change at least some parts of the law.

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