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Barbara Mikulski: “And by an individual mandate, what we mean is that we will help to cover everybody, but everybody's got to participate?”

On the recordOctober 14, 2009
And by an individual mandate, what we mean is that we will help to cover everybody, but everybody's got to participate?
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Mikulski discusses the necessity of an individual mandate for health coverage.

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