That's right. The uninsured rate, my colleague, is 8 percent. Connecticut's is 7.6 percent. For one-half of 1 percent why is it necessary to impose on the employers of Connecticut a mandate that you know will cost jobs in the short term and, worse yet, in the long term will slow the growth of jobs in a very----
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