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John Larson: “But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income…”

On the recordMarch 26, 2019
But you cannot convince me that that mandate was helping lower income Americans, because those same lower income Americans talked about, to me at home, how they couldn't afford the plan and they couldn't afford the penalty.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

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Larson argues the individual mandate burdens low-income Americans financially.

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