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David Schweikert: “47% of all American health care is obesity.”

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

David Schweikert's Address on Economic Challenges and Legislative Solutions

Published June 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:52

What happens when your brothers and sisters have diabetes, when they're crashing repeatedly? Turns out if 33% of all American health care is just diabetes, if 47% of all American health care is obesity. why wouldn't we take those on? Yeah, it means doing some very difficult things. It means having a brutal discussion about agricultural policy, nutrition support, how we're going to deliver health care through our clinics and other things. (15:52–16:01)

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Asserts that obesity accounts for 47% of U.S. healthcare costs.

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“Medicare Advantage fraud... it's 100/plus billion dollars a year in fraud.”
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“For every dollar that was spent on people 65 and up, there were $7 spent on young people [in the 70s]. Today that's reversed.”
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“Last year for every dollar we took in tax receipts, we spent $1.39.”
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“33% of all American health care is just diabetes.”
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“Improper Medicaid payments since 2019 are over $400 billion.”
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“A study suggests Medicaid improper payments could be $1.1 trillion over 10 years.”
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“We borrow about $6 billion a day right now. Next year we're going to borrow about 7 billion.”
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“In nine budget years, we're borrowing about 10 billion a day.”
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“Looks like we're going to borrow 7.3% of the economy this year.”
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“In nine budget years Moody says... will be borrowing 9% of GDP.”
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“The preliminary number is around 1,700,000,000, to $1,840,000,000. Excuse me, trillion, sorry. $1,840,000,.”
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“We've also introduced a talent based immigration bill.”
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“The primary driver of debt in America is demographics, it's functionally Medicare in a few years, Social Security when the trust fund's…”
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“The number of 18 year olds we had then compared to the number of 18 year olds today, almost identical.”
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“The number of our brothers and sisters who are 65 and up has almost doubled in that 20 years.”
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“We estimate that it's over a trillion and a half dollars, 1.5 trillion [in forgotten funds].”
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“Our taxes are all going up next year. In my district, it's over a couple thousand dollars for an average family.”
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“Small businesses in my district will be hit with a 43% tax hike.”
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“We're baseline going to spend $68 trillion over the next 10 years.”
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“All we're talking about cutting is functionally 2.2, 2.3% of it [the $68 trillion].”
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“In nine budget years, we're spending 9% of the entire economy is borrowed.”
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“Twice in nine years, the borrow will be 3.8 trillion.”
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“In nine budget years we go from today where we borrow $6 billion a day, we're going to be borrowing $10 billion a day.”
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“Most of America is poorer today than they were four years ago and that's basically inflation.”
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“If you don't make about 27 +% more than you did four or five years ago, you are poor today.”
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“The day we were all re-elected or elected last November, public sold debt was around 28 trillion.”
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“We will almost double [the public sold debt] in the next 10 years.”
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“The 65 population has nearly doubled in 20 years.”
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“The number of 18 year olds is basically the same [as 20 years ago].”
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“The Social Security trust fund is emptied, basically. Meaning if the Social Security follows the law, there's going to be...a 21% cut in…”
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“Eliminating the cap on Social Security at that time only covers 38% of the shortfall.”
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“Individual taxes go up, what, 3.1% trillion dollars over the next 10 years.”
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“We've introduced a bill. Our first number was $1.76 trillion in savings, just reorganizing, redesigning the incentives within Medicare Part…”
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“Our preliminary number from CBO wasn't 1,706,000,000 over 10 years. It turns out they gave us a 1.84 as a preliminary guess.”
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“Seniors on Medicare Advantage will be healthier because the incentive is to keep them healthier.”
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“Still 14.67 trillion is the baseline spending over the next 10 years.”
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“Arizona was the last state to enter Medicaid, not until the mid-80s.”
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“Arizona buys managed care policies for Medicaid, functioning as managed HMO policies for the indigent population.”
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“Social Security, Medicare, and net interest account for 80% of spending growth over the next nine budget years.”
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“Military and non-defense discretionary spending are scheduled to grow slower than tax receipts over 30 years.”
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“Some states had applications for Medicaid work requirements approved, but the Biden administration halted them.”
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“University of Chicago did an amazing study on what work requirements do in benefit programs.”
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“The participants [in benefit programs with work requirements] are wealthier because they may get the benefit, but the work requirements…”
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“You're crushing people. You're destroying their economic futures, their ability to learn skill sets, how to participate in the economy.”
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