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Ron Johnson: “Surgeries [at a cash-only surgical center in Oklahoma] are…”

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

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The First Tell: Senator Ron Johnson on What Broke the COVID Narrative | Ep 1

Published | Video Starts at 19:14

Their prices for surgery, and they're first class surgeons because they got great surgeons who again, they're sick of the the current paradigm. They've switched over to independent practice here. Their Surgeries [at a cash-only surgical center in Oklahoma] are 10% the cost of hospital surgeries. That is the potential if we were to bring consumers back into the equation here. The biggest problem we have in our healthcare system or another problem, but the one driving cost is we've taken consumerism out of healthcare. (19:14–19:19)

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Asserts that cash-only surgical centers can significantly reduce surgery costs.

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