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Ron Johnson: “Patients only pay about 10% of all healthcare.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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SEN. RON JOHNSON: GOP UNVEILS OBAMACARE COUNTERPLAN

Published | Video Starts at 10:14

You can go to chiropractor and you'd be paying out of a health savings account. Right, okay. But again, the problem is the third party payer system. We've transitioned to the point where Patients only pay about 10% of all healthcare. Otherwise it's the insurance company or government. You can pass a law saying you gotta post prices, but as long as nobody's paying really responsible for that price, nobody cares. (10:14–10:18)

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Asserts that patients are responsible for only 10% of healthcare costs.

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