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Barack Obama: I am not looking for free health care. I would just like to get my premiums reduced enough to be able to afford it.

On the recordJuly 24, 2009
I am not looking for free health care. I would just like to get my premiums reduced enough to be able to afford it.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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