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On the recordSeptember 14, 2016
How could we accept the kind of system that existed before the Affordable Care Act where now anybody--even if they have a preexisting condition--can get health care?
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters questions the previous healthcare system's fairness regarding preexisting conditions.

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