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On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
The other countries of the world don't look at it that way. They look at it as a right for their citizens to have access to health care, and they provide the health insurance. There are different ways of doing it. Germany, France, Britain, Canada all do it differently, but they all do it. Incidentally, the health statistics in all of those countries are considerably better than America, and America is placed at the bottom of the industrialized countries in terms of our health care, how healthy we are, how long we live, how sick we get. We are at the bottom. In fact, we are often with developing countries in the statistics. We spend almost twice as much as any of those other countries. So the Affordable Health Care Act goes after many, many things beyond the Patients Bill of Rights and the senior issues.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi discusses the differences in health care access and outcomes between the U.S. and other industrialized nations.

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