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Elissa Slotkin: “Our health care system, including the cost of prescription…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Battle for the Senate: A Conversation with Michigan Candidate & Current Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin

Published | Video Starts at 29:32

I can't tell you the number of times people come up to me, clutch my arm and say, I can't afford my insulin or I can't afford my. Whatever that is. I would say Our health care system, including the cost of prescription drugs, is broken. It is broken. And you can argue, as we should, about what a better system looks like, but we can't shy away from the fact that people are paying way too much of their annual income to health care and prescription drugs. (29:32–29:38)

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Asserts that the U.S. healthcare system and prescription drug costs are dysfunctional.

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