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On the recordMarch 11, 2010
You just used the number of 12 million. Two professors at the University of Minnesota, which is not exactly a conservative university, said, if you just enacted cross-State-line purchases, then that would enable 12 million additional Americans to afford health insurance with not one penny of cost to the American taxpayer.
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John Shadegg
Arizona
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Mar 11, 2010

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Speaker discusses the potential impact of cross-State-line health insurance purchases.

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