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Dustin Burrows: “The cost of health care is two to five times greater over…”

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

Representative Dustin Burrows Talks Cost of Pharmaceuticals

Published June 22, 2015 | Video Starts at 04:16

… issues we're dealing with, not only is West Texas, but the entire state of Texas is the rising cost of health care. I started looking into it and realized that The cost of health care is two to five times greater over the last 20 years than what all other goods have risen. measured by CPI or Consumer Price Index. And so it's an unsustainable path that we're on. A big component of that is going to be pharmaceuticals. (04:16–04:23)

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Asserts that healthcare costs have risen two to five times more than other goods over the last 20 years.

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