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Elissa Slotkin: “The average person is just paying way too much for their…”

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

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Slotkin Talks Jobs and the Economy at Southern Wayne County Regional Chamber Event

Published | Video Starts at 15:01

The cuts that have come down the pike in the last six months have exacerbated, as I said, a system that was already not working. Okay? The average person is just paying way too much for their health care and not getting the health outcomes that we see. Even in other countries, in other developed countries that doesn't work. And then you add to it the cost of prescription drugs. Right? And we live on the border of Canada. (15:01–15:07)

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Asserts that people pay too much for healthcare without receiving comparable health outcomes.

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