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Ron Johnson: “There should be incentive for government, but as you can…”

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

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

Published | Video Starts at 01:46

Can you think, in the current system, can you think of any incentive throughout health care to actually drive costs down? I mean, again, of the players in there, the insurance companies, quite honestly, There should be incentive for government, but as you can see, they just want to throw a few hundred billion dollars more at a failed system. Is there any incentive? The insurers are colluding with the hospitals and the other healthcare providers to drive costs up across the board. (01:46–01:54)

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Asserts that the government is spending hundreds of billions on a failed healthcare system.

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