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David Schweikert: I am going to finish this up in 6 minutes and yield back to you. I need us all to come back and think creatively. If I…

On the recordDecember 15, 2022
I am going to finish this up in 6 minutes and yield back to you. I need us all to come back and think creatively. If I came to my brothers and sister here who are elected, our staff who are all freaky smart--a lot of them institutionalized, but they are smart. The public, who, if they knew the underlining numbers, their creativity could break us through on the crap we are doing. If I came to you tomorrow, and said, I need ideas that crash the price of healthcare. That for the 5 percent of our brothers and sisters who have multiple chronic conditions that are well over 50 percent of our healthcare spending, what do we do to make them less sick--maybe even cure them? What do you do to deal with environmental issues but do it in a way where the economy still grows instead of this model the Democrats have brought us--we are just going to subsidize everyone--and then wonder why the math ultimately blows up on us. There is one opportunity that specifically interests me. I never want to hear another Member basically come behind the microphone and say, We need to regulate this more--or on my side--we need to deregulate this more. Can I beg of us to use the language--why don't we try some smart regulation. Why don't we join this century and use the technology we all walk around with. We all walk around with supercomputers in our pocket. We had the Supreme Court case, it was West Virginia v.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona
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Dec 15, 2022

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