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On the recordMarch 10, 2009
The Iraq War has cost America at least $1.5 trillion in tax dollars, and for that money that we have doled out to pay for the war, we could have provided health care coverage to every American who doesn't have it.
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Alan Grayson
Democratic · Florida

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Grayson critiques the financial cost of the Iraq War versus domestic health care needs.

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