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Mark Kirk: “One solution would be to have the government take over everyone's health care and to make sure we take action that…”

On the recordJune 11, 2007
One solution would be to have the government take over everyone's health care and to make sure we take action that breaks the link between you and your physician and insert a large bureaucracy that currently runs the post office and now put it in charge of your health care. Many of us think that that may not be the way to go. The way to go is to make sure that for many Americans, they like the health insurance plan that they're on, and then they would like to carry that through the five to seven jobs that they will have in the 21st century.
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Mark Kirk
Republican · Illinois

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Discussing health care reform and the role of government in health insurance.

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