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David Schweikert: “Over the next couple decades, it's actually Medicare starts…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 25:29

Well, we can't do that. Why the hell not? It's almost immoral. And look, I've done this before trying to show you that Over the next couple decades, it's actually Medicare starts to consume approaching 7% of the entire economy. Just that you start to add in Social Security, that's going 5.9%. And you start to understand when you're starting to look at numbers of 13, 14% of the entire economy is just those two programs. (25:29–25:37)

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Asserts that Medicare will consume nearly 7% of the US economy in the coming decades.

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