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David Schweikert: “Diabetes is 33% of all US healthcare spending.”

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

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Final September Floor Speech - David Schweikert

Published | Video Starts at 09:51

We can cure hepatitis C, we can cure hemophilia. There are things that are coming out. There's the vertex experiments that look like they're about to cure type 1 diabetes. If Diabetes is 33% of all US healthcare spending. what is the morality, but what's also the amazing economics? If we would fixate in the farm bill, nutrition support, in the way we deliver healthcare to get our brothers … (09:51–09:55)

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Asserts that diabetes accounts for 33% of U.S. healthcare spending.

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