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Mike Johnson: “Health care is broken in America. It's too expensive. The…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 21:08

We're not. This is not talking points for us. We've done it. A big part of the one big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut, was to fix health care. Health care is broken in America. It's too expensive. The quality of care needs to rise. We need more access for more people. And we have lots of ideas to do that. But that issue is for debate in the next three months. It always was. (21:08–21:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. healthcare system is broken, expensive, and needs quality improvements.

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