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Janice Schakowsky: I think it is worse if you know that there is the cure right there, that there is a cure right there and you can't get…

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
I think it is worse if you know that there is the cure right there, that there is a cure right there and you can't get it.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky emphasizes the pain of knowing a cure exists but is inaccessible.

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