David Schweikert: “Medicare. For every dime you put in, you're functioning now…”

“You would have done so much better if you'd been allowed to take a little sliver and put it in the markets. But that ship sailed 20 years ago. Medicare. For every dime you put in, you're functioning now. Getting close to getting $5 back. That's the primary driver. We're not supposed to talk about that, but that's the primary driver. And think about what happened. And this is my point I've made for years here.” (00:51–26:56)

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