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Ed Markey: “I never would have envisioned that the health care bills would now have risen to over $1 trillion.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
I never would have envisioned that the health care bills would now have risen to over $1 trillion.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey comments on the rising healthcare costs associated with veterans' care.

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