Insurance companies are. Elon Musk's companies make billions, $3 billion a year off of government contracts. That's six times the money that goes to all of public broadcasting. Private insurers and Medicare advantage overcharged taxpayers $83 billion just last year. That could pay for public broadcasting 160 times over the four and a half trillion dollar tax cut for the ultra wealthy that Republicans on this committee are trying to push through that would pay for public broadcasting 9,000 times over. (03:19–03:28)
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Asserts that private insurers and Medicare Advantage overcharged taxpayers by $83 billion in the previous year.
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