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Barack Obama: You won't have to worry about one illness leading your family into financial ruin.

On the recordJuly 19, 2009
You won't have to worry about one illness leading your family into financial ruin.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the Children's National Medical Center

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