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Tony Lyons: “Medicare and Medicaid has to pay for the chronic diseases…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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Tony Lyons Interview on The Paul Leslie Hour

Published | Video Starts at 12:05

Because if you allow a big company, it doesn't matter what the product is, to make a product where the government has all the liabilities, so taxpayers have to pay for it, and then you deliver it to millions of people. But then Medicare and Medicaid has to pay for the chronic diseases that these people get. But that's just a bad deal. And the government shouldn't be in the business of propping up companies and allowing them to injure and to sicken the American public and … (12:05–12:11)

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Asserts that Medicare and Medicaid cover chronic diseases caused by certain products.

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