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On the recordJuly 9, 2013
I hope and pray that the insurance business and our government and everything will not be penny wise and pound foolish, because it is, for all diseases but certainly for this one, better to try to find a cure and a prevention than treat complications 50 years down the road.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren emphasizes the importance of investing in prevention over treating long-term complications.

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