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Mike Kennedy: “There's something really wrong with the system that in the…”

Featuring: Mike Kennedy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 3rd Congressional District

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Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 26:38

Now it's $1,500 to $2,000 to treat that same kind of broken ankle nowadays. What happened in the past 40 years? I know I feel like a mummy sometimes. I'm so old. But. But the reality is There's something really wrong with the system that in the past 40 years has turned into such an expensive prohibitive system as to cost. And we need to work on that. What specifically would you support as far as reforms go? You don't have the time. Seriously, you don't have enough time? No, you don't. (26:38–26:46)

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Asserts that the healthcare system has become prohibitively expensive over the past 40 years.

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