Francesca Hong: “Healthcare costs are high because healthcare prices are…”

“A public option we absolutely. That's going to help both employers and employees make sure that we're competing with the marketplace to bring premiums down. But healthcare prices are high. Healthcare costs are high because healthcare prices are high. So if we aren't taking on the way that hospitals might be charging insurance companies four or five times more than what they're getting reimbursed for Medicare and then consumers, …” (17:21–17:25)

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