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Janice Schakowsky: “Patients without access to health care have almost a 50 percent higher mortality rate”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
Patients without access to health care have almost a 50 percent higher mortality rate
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky highlights the critical impact of healthcare access on cancer patient mortality.

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