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Danny Davis: “If you create an opportunity for more than 30 million people in this country to have health insurance... the only…”

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

Editor's note · Context

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

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