When you go to the hospital or you go to the doctor and you pay out the rear end for a treatment, you are subsidizing all of the therapies, all. And what, tell us what subsidizing means, who won't know? So basically We pay more so that Europeans in other parts of the world pay less. So we fund all the innovation, we fund all the development of new drugs and then Americans pay way more. That's why, you know, Americans, we spend 22% of our economy on healthcare. (1:20:17–1:20:21)
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Asserts that Americans pay more for healthcare to subsidize lower costs in other countries.
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