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On the recordNovember 9, 2007
I don't want to wake up four years from now and find out that millions of Americans still lack health care because we couldn't take on the insurance industry.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Des Moines

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