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Angus King: “That's about twice as high as any other industrialized…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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Published | Video Starts at 21:58

Katie, we pay 22% of GDP for health care in this country. That's one in every five dollars in the country goes to health care. That's about twice as high as any other industrialized country in the world. So we've really got a problem on our hands, unfortunately. For the last 10 or 15 years, all the argument has been about who pays ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance. (21:58–22:04)

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Asserts that U.S. health care spending is about twice that of other industrialized countries.

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