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Tom Barrett: “Right now, about a third or more of the dollars we spend on…”

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

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Healthy America Speaker Series with Secretary Kennedy and Congressman Tom Barrett

Published | Video Starts at 50:28

… your own health care and your own decisions and increasing that ratio so that they are not able to take these, you know, ridiculous profitability and salaries and executive compensation. Right now, about a third or more of the dollars we spend on health care are not actually going into the treatment of health conditions. They're not reimbursing doctors, they're not paying for prescriptions. They're going to the back and forth the frictional loss between those that the health insurance companies and those that are … (50:28–50:37)

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Asserts that a third or more of healthcare spending does not go towards treatment.

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