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On the recordSeptember 11, 2024
How have we let American capitalism get so off the rails? So, unmoored from the common good that anybody thinks it's Okay to make a billion dollars off of degrading healthcare for poor people in Waterbury, Connecticut.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy criticizes the profit motives in healthcare harming the poor.

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