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Rick Scott: “We have got to figure out how people have access to health…”

Featuring: Rick Scott, Republican | U.S. Senate, Florida

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Sen. Rick Scott Joins Fox Business to Call for Immediate Passage of His More Affordable Care Act

Published | Video Starts at 01:05

I grew up in a family, we lived in public housing. My little brother couldn't get health care except for maturity hospital four hours away because my parents didn't have any money. We have got to figure out how people have access to health care and we've got to get this cost down. The only way it's going to happen is allow people to be shoppers. You know, when we subsidize somebody's health care, which we should. (01:05–01:10)

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Asserts the need to reduce health care costs to improve access.

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