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Amy Klobuchar: “But today what we have going on is a perversity of insurance where instead of healthy people subsidizing the sick, we…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2018
But today what we have going on is a perversity of insurance where instead of healthy people subsidizing the sick, we have turned our system into one where sick people are subsidizing healthy.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Senator critiques the current insurance system's structure.

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