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Ron Johnson: “The federal government has to spend, but it's also doing…”

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'There's No Incentive To Lower Costs': Ron Johnson Shreds Obamacare, Govt. Involvement In Healthcare

Published | Video Starts at 05:19

The nine to one match and in particular talk about how that has driven scams, things like provider taxes, provider fees. It's not health care, it's driving up. The federal government has to spend, but it's also doing something pretty nasty about incentivizing providers to focus more on those able bodied adults at the expense of a severely autistic child. But to talk about that first of all, but then also just talk about because of that, how hospitals, how states have literally structured their budgets around that, which is why we couldn't really fix that in the one big beautiful bill. (05:19–05:31)

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Asserts that federal spending incentives prioritize able-bodied adults over severely autistic children.

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