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Andy Biggs: “The incentive of a normal market system is for me to go out…”

Featuring: Andy Biggs, Republican | U.S. House Arizona, District 5

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Published | Video Starts at 23:41

What we were talking about today is what about the patients incentives? They are, they have been so distorted and actually quite frankly suppressed in many, many instances because The incentive of a normal market system is for me to go out and get the best product I can for the most reasonable price that's affordable. To me, that, but that's, that's gone. That incentive is actually gone. And it's so distorted that I think the average American person, when they look at it, because you described it just a second ago, saying it's an incredibly convoluted, complicated system. (23:41–23:55)

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Asserts that market incentives for obtaining affordable healthcare are no longer present.

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