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David Schweikert: “If we could make our society healthier, it's the single…”

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

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And it turns out if you took it on, it's the single biggest thing you could do for US debt is take on the very things that are killing us. And I've done presentations before, they were a little geeky trying to explain that If we could make our society healthier, it's the single biggest thing I can do to reduce U.S. debt. And then there's these things. You all remember your high school economics class. First degree effects, second degree effects, third degree effects, knockoff effects. Remember all the weird language. (42:55)

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Asserts that making society healthier is the most significant action to reduce U.S. debt.

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