David Schweikert: “This is one of those things I partially do, I think, as therapy. About once every other month, I ask for a block of time…”

“This is one of those things I partially do, I think, as therapy. About once every other month, I ask for a block of time to try to take a bunch of very complex numbers and try to find ways to put them on boards and demonstrate them. I am going to take a little divergence just for a moment or two, in response to some of the things I have heard today. We are actually going to focus on debt and deficit and what is actually demographically driving them, what is really happening in this country, and what is going to drive all public policy in our life. You have had a handful of things said about the ACA--many people know it as ObamaCare--and our replacement. I know some of the things that the Senate is working on. There is a math problem--and it is very simple--in the individual market. So if you hear someone turn to you and say, This is about healthcare for everyone or this is employer-based, or Medicare, it is not. In my congressional district, less than 2 percent of my population actually purchased in the individual market. So you have to start putting this in perspective. Here is your math problem. Because the prices kept moving up and the deductibles kept becoming larger and larger, half of our population-- that 50 percent that only uses 3 percent of healthcare dollars--stopped buying.…”