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On the recordJuly 22, 2013
When I was at the State fair in 2009 during the heated debate about the ACA, a woman in her 60s came up to me and she said, at my age everything's pre-existing.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken recalls a conversation highlighting concerns about pre-existing conditions under the ACA.

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