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Joe Lieberman: “Would you really, because you couldn't get everything you want, stop this extraordinary reform? I mean, it -- it will…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2009
Would you really, because you couldn't get everything you want, stop this extraordinary reform? I mean, it -- it will provide, by all the experts' estimates, insurance to 30 million people who don't have it now.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman challenges critics on the left about the importance of passing health care reform despite compromises.

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