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Jake Auchincloss: “It's a problem that healthcare and housing suffer from cost…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss

Published | Video Starts at 24:16

And my answer would be, you broadly want to look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs. You want to start at the bottom, physiological needs, social needs, and move your way up. So It's a problem that healthcare and housing suffer from cost disease. That's a problem because those are pretty low on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. But if where we ended up was that personal grooming became the sector most afflicted by the Bommel effect, then that is progress as a society. (24:16–24:22)

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