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Barack Obama: “All those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured if I had spent the first two…”

On the recordOctober 18, 2016
All those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured if I had spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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