Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Dr. Holtz. Eak. And I think our national debt is approaching $38 trillion. Yes. And We're paying more money on interest on the national debt than we are on defense of the nation. That's correct. Which strikes me as unsustainable. I hear proponents of the status quo, these very expensive ACA subsidies, saying we should just keep using more tax dollars to subsidize insurance companies and not look at reforms of the current system. (00:11–00:16)
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