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David Schweikert: “We could cut the time down in half bringing cures and…”

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

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Published June 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 23:45

We have AI that can grind through data and look at article after article and population statistics and these things. There's actually lots of data right now saying We could cut the time down in half bringing cures and miracles to market. I would argue this is our obligation. This is people's lives. Besides the fact of the morality, it's also really good economics and would be great for the borrowing. (23:45–23:51)

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Asserts that AI and technology could significantly reduce the time needed to bring medical innovations to market.

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“Total interest this year is going to be maybe just a little shy of 1.2 trillion, making interest the second biggest expenditure in this…”
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“Social Security will be about a trillion 480 billion interest 1.2.”
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“Problem is this year we're borrowing close to, I think our run rate in the last 365 days is like 8% of GDP.”
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“100% of the debt from today through the next 30 years, interest, health care.”
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“The new number on Social Security for this coming year is 1,480,000,000,000.”
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“Medicare is spending maybe up as much as 10% so far this year.”
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“In 15 years, we model, this country has more deaths than births.”
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“The math says right now that child that's young today will be poorer than their parents.”
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“Every dime a member of Congress votes on today is on borrowed money.”
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“This year you're going to spend about 1.2 trillion of your tax receipts in interest.”
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“We've had one or two months, maybe three months where we actually had to borrow money to pay for our borrowed money to pay the interest.”
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“The Pentagon being substantially unauditable. We do not know where almost 4 trillion in assets are.”
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“The eighth year where the Pentagon has functionally come back as unauditable.”
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“We're going to offer this as an amendment in the next day or so on the National Defense Authorization bill.”
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“The Government Accounting Office can only do so much.”
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“There's been an experiment. I got to give the IRS credit on this one. It's a small experiment. They did it last tax season, this tax season…”
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“People are really, really expensive in government.”
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“We estimate, and we have multiple academic articles that say about 16% of all healthcare spending is people failing to stay on their…”
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“The estimate for people not taking their prescriptions is 528 billion per year.”
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“Apple just got its next generation of watch approved by the FDA for monitoring your heart.”
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“Your ability to have that breath biopsy, that flu kazoo, is functionally illegal.”
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“Democrats passed legislation to functionally hand $16 billion of your tax money to big Pharma.”
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“75 miles from here, there's a co-op making three brands or three types of generic insulin.”
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“Obesity will cost this country as high as $9.1 trillion over the next 10 years.”
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“AI tool finds variants for heart disease.”
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“AI traces mysterious metastatic cancer to its source.”
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“We were able to get two AI amendments attached to the VA bill.”
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“Half their cost is just administrative [in doctor's offices, surgery centers, and clinics].”
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“You could crash the price of a healthcare clinic in half [by using technology].”
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“Telehealth should be digital health.”
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“Cure diseases, make people's lives less miserable, but there will be armies of lobbyists in our hallways.”
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