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Mike Pence: This is a government takeover of health care. The American people don't want it.

On the recordOctober 29, 2009
This is a government takeover of health care. The American people don't want it.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Pence describes the Democratic health care proposal as a government takeover, emphasizing that it is not what the American people desire.

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