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Andy Biggs: “Their incentives are basically, they're not going to give…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 16:21

They're, in my view, they're almost always per, they're almost always perverse because they're skewed. They're, they're directed through policy choices that are not really good. So the insurance companies, I mean, you touched on this. Their incentives are basically, they're not going to give you the best care at the lowest premiums. Like you said, there's no MD Anderson Cancer center in Texas. What are the incentives? What do the insurance companies say? I know what President Trump says. (16:21–16:29)

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Asserts that insurance companies are not incentivized to provide the best care at the lowest premiums.

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