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Wesley Hunt: “The quality of care in this country is the greatest in the…”

Featuring: Wesley Hunt, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 38

EP. #20 Living The Authentic Life with Wesley Hunt.

Published October 16, 2020 | Video Starts at 31:32

It's such a big issue. We don't expect you to have the answer, but can you tell us some of your thoughts on that journey? Right, so The quality of care in this country is the greatest in the world. And I know that because when I was stationed in Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, who has since passed but was the king of Saudi Arabia at the time. (31:32–31:40)

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Asserts that the U.S. has the highest quality of healthcare globally.

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“COVID 19 doesn't really impact kids.”
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“We have to have the best economic year in the history of this country.”
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“We just added $10 trillion to our debt.”
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“Driving around here can be quite depressing when you look at the small businesses that are lost that may absolutely never come back.”
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“My great, great grandfather who was a slave. His name was Silas Crawford, born on rose Down Plantation, 60 miles north of Baton Rouge…”
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“Pachyderm Club is a Republican organization throughout the country that meets weekly that kind of discusses Republican issues.”
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“Conservative values are kind of how we got here in the first place. You know, things like life and liberty and freedom and low regulation…”
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“I'm not a climate denier. I get it.”
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“The benevolence of the Green New Deal and the idea of it sounds really good, but it doesn't make any practical sense.”
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“These countries have to get on board with reducing their carbon footprint, or we could destroy the oil and gas industry here in the United…”
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“They're building four coal plants per month in India and in China as we speak.”
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“Joe Biden is on record for saying no new fracking and Kamala Harris is the co sponsor and co author, excuse me, of the Green New Deal in the…”
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“20 years ago, before we had fracking, we would kill a bad guy in the Middle east and then turn around and ask those same countries for oil.”
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“There are roughly 1 billion with a balance. Light trucks and vehicles that are gas powered in the world today.”
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“Over the course of the next 20 years, we're going to add another billion vehicles. And of that billion vehicles, 750 million of them are…”
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“Hurricane Harvey hit us three years ago, hit us pretty hard.”
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“What we know for a fact is we need to dredge addicts and Barker reservoirs, partly part of which will be in my district here after I win.”
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“Over the course of the last two years, since Lizzie Fletcher has been our congresswoman, not a single bucket of dirt has been moved.”
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“Two years ago, we, this country generated the highest tax revenue in the history of this country and increased our deficit by another…”
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“We had a $21 trillion deficit going into the pandemic.”
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“We're going to add another $10 trillion to our deficit by next year.”
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“The small businesses in this community have been hit the hardest of all.”
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“The Affordable Care Act did was draft premiums up to where it is completely unaffordable for the average American.”
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“We don't have a quality of care problem in this country. We have a cost of care problem.”
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“Socialized medicine degrades the quality of care.”
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“We need more [physicians].”
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“We can't afford [socialized medicine].”
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“Allow insurance companies to sell their insurance policies across state lines.”
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“One in three abortions are actually at the hands of black women, yet we're only 13% of the population.”
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“Here in New York City, there are more aborted black babies than born.”
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“I am the product of having the greatest privilege of all. And that's called parent privilege.”
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“Parent privilege, which actually supersedes any kind of privilege that you can imagine.”
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“If you're willing to sacrifice for your kids and show them education and raise God fearing American kids, their chances of success increase…”
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“What I'm seeing in a lot of these young people is, is that because they didn't have that tutelage at a very young age growing up, the deck…”
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“We get the leadership that we deserve a lot of times.”
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“Our current congresswoman, in my opinion, is not authentic to the district that she is supposed to represent.”
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