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Mike Johnson: “Health care is entwined with somewhere, I think it's 15% of…”

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

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Speaker Johnson condemns Democrat shutdown after Trump's Knesset speech

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And so we have lots of ideas on how to fix it. But it is very, very complicated. It involves a big percentage of the U.S. economy. Health care is entwined with somewhere, I think it's 15% of the US economy is the health care system. And you can't just rip it out at the roots and start over it. It's a very, very complicated series of measures and steps that you have to take to fix it. (15:00–15:07)

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Asserts that health care constitutes approximately 15% of the US economy.

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