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John Dingell: the value of what we are trying to do here is to see to it that everybody has health care, to see to it that the health…

On the recordDecember 12, 2012
the value of what we are trying to do here is to see to it that everybody has health care, to see to it that the health care of this country is affordable and available to all of our people and to see to it that the people of this country have a system which makes available to the ordinary citizen the right of health care, and it is, in my view, a right.
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John Dingell
Democratic · Michigan

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Dingell asserts that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

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