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Dustin Burrows: “Medical inflation has been two to five times CPI since 1980.”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

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Keynote Lunch with Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows | Texas Policy Summit 2026

Published | Video Starts at 21:41

I'm going to say this, and hopefully everyone understands why it's so important. Go back and look at the measure of Medical inflation has been two to five times CPI since 1980. You think about the compounding effect of what that is. It is immense and it continues to get a bigger and bigger percentage of the sector. (21:41–21:45)

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Asserts that medical inflation has significantly outpaced the Consumer Price Index since 1980.

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