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Ron Johnson: “You've got 10 cents of every dollar spent on healthcare…”

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 03:15

People won't show up. And you better have some pretty pleasant waiters and waitresses too. So, okay, that's what a free market system does. That's what we've driven out of health care. You've got 10 cents of every dollar spent on healthcare being paid by a patient. The rest is through a third party payer, either insurance carrier or the government. That's basically it, right? So I hear colleagues say we've got to pass law for price transparency. And they have. It hasn't worked because, okay, you see it on the. (03:15–03:25)

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Asserts that only 10% of healthcare costs are paid directly by patients, with the rest covered by third parties.

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