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On the recordJuly 27, 2011
If you create an opportunity for more than 30 million people in this country to have health insurance... the only business that I could see that gets hurt by this is the undertaker.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Davis argues that providing health insurance benefits creates jobs, not kills them.

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