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Tom Harkin: “Why shouldn't that change? Why shouldn't it be easy to be healthy and harder to be unhealthy?”

On the recordApril 23, 2013
Why shouldn't that change? Why shouldn't it be easy to be healthy and harder to be unhealthy?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the current state of health accessibility in America.

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