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Mike Rounds: “It's not a matter of just putting $35 billion back into the…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Rounds Joins Leland Vittert on NewsNation to Discuss Government Shutdown

Published | Video Starts at 00:48

And the message that we had for them was is we have to fix health care in America. And that recognizes that it's going to take a lot more time than what a person might think. It's not a matter of just putting $35 billion back into the same thing in which the prices are going up at over 7% a year. So the message that we've got is we want to fix it and we'll work with our Democrat colleagues to do so. We've committed to do that. (00:48–00:57)

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Asserts that healthcare prices are increasing by over 7% annually.

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