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Barack Obama: We took two Republican ideas--the exchange, the marketplace, and creating large purchasing pools so that people did not…

On the recordApril 14, 2015
We took two Republican ideas--the exchange, the marketplace, and creating large purchasing pools so that people did not have to be part of a big organization in order to get health care coverage and better coverage.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama explains bipartisan contributions to health care reform.

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