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Tony Venhuizen: “If we just had government run health care... you're going to…”

Featuring: Tony Venhuizen, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota

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Vermillion Unplugged Ep. 190: Larry Rhoden & Tony Venhuizen | South Dakota Governor #podcast

Published | Video Starts at 29:20

You can say, well, what if we just had government run health care? Well, you can go to Canada or Great Britain, say, or a lot of places and it's simpler to deal with. It's If we just had government run health care... you're going to wait a year to get an appointment and it's not going to be the quality. So there's, there's good and bad to both systems. I think we have a good system and that we have very quality and in South Dakota particularly, we have strong health care systems who do a really good job. (29:20–29:33)

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Asserts that government-run health care leads to long wait times and lower quality.

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