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David Schweikert: “We're financing [healthcare] with partially borrowed money.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:24

And now I'm dealing with some of the data we're looking at of those moving into their retirement benefits being also much sicker and trying to figure out how we finance that. And We're financing [healthcare] with partially borrowed money. It's an honestly good economics and a moral argument. Maybe we should change the way we do nutrition assistance in America. Maybe we should do change, even down to some of the agricultural policy of adding more variety. (18:24–22:29)

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Asserts that healthcare is being financed with borrowed funds.

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