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Lisa Murkowski: “To know that, well, if you get sick after June when those Contract Health funds have run out, you are out of luck.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
To know that, well, if you get sick after June when those Contract Health funds have run out, you are out of luck.
Said by
Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski highlights the lack of health care access due to funding issues.

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