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Bill Clinton: No one ever talked about a law. There's never been a suggestion that we have a law which would set that as a goal. That…

On the recordJuly 20, 1994
No one ever talked about a law. There's never been a suggestion that we have a law which would set that as a goal. That number only came up in the context of the so-called trigger bill. Nobody did that. And no one has yet found a way to do that without a law that says ``universal coverage.'' The point I made yesterday is we have universal social security, but about 2 percent somehow don't get covered. We have universal school attendance laws in every State in the country, but there are always a couple of percent of the people that fall through the cracks. [Inaudible]--write it into law to get this.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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