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Gilbert Gutknecht: “We are absorbing that cost, and I think when we talked about this at a conference today, what somebody said is we are…”

On the recordJune 12, 2003
We are absorbing that cost, and I think when we talked about this at a conference today, what somebody said is we are subsidizing the rest of the world in health care and prescription drugs, and we are subsidizing, I think your term is, the ``starving French,'' or the ``starving Swedes,'' or the ``starving Swiss.''
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the costs of healthcare and prescription drugs in relation to global subsidies.

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