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David Schweikert: “33% of all health care spending is diabetes, mostly type 2…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published | Video Starts at 32:06

Well, I'm going to show you in a couple other slides you can replace much of the bureaucracies with AI, which is another thing we need to do. Remember I did a whole presentation here a year ago that in the United States, 33% of all health care spending is diabetes, mostly type 2, 31% of Medicare. 31% of Medicare. Remember I showed you Medicare is now the primary driver of U.S. debt, along with interest. 31% of Medicare is now diabetes. (32:06–32:15)

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Asserts that diabetes accounts for 33% of healthcare spending and 31% of Medicare spending.

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