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David Schweikert: “We're still going to spend 14 plus trillion, trillion being…”

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

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David Schweikert's Address on Economic Challenges and Policy Solutions

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… show this board, even though I'm going backwards, that I mentioned my boards are out of order. See that red area? That would be the savings on the Medicare Advantage. We're still going to spend 14 plus trillion, trillion being spent on [Medicare Advantage] over the next 10 years. And the crazy thing, this idea of fixing the waste, fraud, misalignment, this reform bill could be Republican and Democrat because anyone who's bothered to actually read the MEDPAC reports for the last half a decade knows we have a problem. (25:21–25:31)

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Asserts that over $14 trillion will be spent on Medicare Advantage in the next decade.

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