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Mark DeSaulnier: “If somebody's making $10,000 a month off of keeping me alive but not curing it, why would be the incentive to cure it?”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2019
If somebody's making $10,000 a month off of keeping me alive but not curing it, why would be the incentive to cure it?
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Mark DeSaulnier
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

DeSaulnier questions the profit motives in healthcare that discourage curing diseases.

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