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On the recordFebruary 25, 2020
Are you aware that under your leadership, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen for the first time in a decade in 2018 by roughly two million people?
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Joseph P. Kennedy III
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Kennedy questions Secretary Azar about rising uninsured rates under his leadership.

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