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Tom Barrett: “Holding these big health insurance companies accountable…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Published | Video Starts at 07:00

Then you have kind of your day to day expenses, groceries, utilities, gas at the pump and all these other things. Specifically on the issue of healthcare, you know, I've been very active in introducing reform legislation around healthcare, Holding these big health insurance companies accountable that have had many massive taxpayer subsidies going into them. that have driven up their profitability while care has declined. I tell people, you know, we're, we're getting, you know, they're getting richer while, while we're all getting sicker and they're not covering the routine things that Americans expect. (07:00–07:08)

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Asserts that he is working to hold health insurance companies accountable for receiving massive taxpayer subsidies.

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