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Jeff Hurd: “I know it is a huge part of our GDP healthcare spending, and…”

Featuring: Jeff Hurd, Republican | U.S. House Colorado, District 3

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Republican Jeff Hurd speaks about his campaign for Colorado Congressional District 3 [

Published | Video Starts at 11:45

Health care represents about 25% of the budget right now, while maintaining and improving, really the quality of care. Easy question. I know it's an open ended question. I know it is a huge part of our GDP healthcare spending, and we are not spending it very efficiently at all. I would not advocate abolishing the Affordable Care act wholesale, but I certainly think we need to make some improvements. The things that I would think of would be pricing transparency. (11:45–11:52)

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Asserts that healthcare spending is inefficient and a significant part of GDP.

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