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Ron Johnson: “Rick Scott had a great hearing on aging. He had a surgeon…”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson: We have a health care financing problem

Published | Video Starts at 03:50

We ought to go in the doctor's office and go, how much is this visit going to cost me? What is this procedure going to cost? And if we were actually paying for it ourselves. Rick Scott had a great hearing on aging. He had a surgeon from Oklahoma set up a cash on the barrel head surgery center. Their prices for surgery were a tenth, 10% of what hospitals were charging. It is incredibly high quality. So again, that's what happens when you bring consumer back consumerism back in the equation. Now the problem is we have this completely broken system. (03:50–04:04)

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