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On the recordMay 5, 2010
In expectation of this thing. So what you are saying is really not very outlandish, from a commonsense point of view. It is not like you are speculating and saying this thing is not going to work. We have seen European socialized medicine. We have next door the Canadian socialized medicine model. And I think it was about 10 years ago the head of Canada, their prime minister said, We have got the best health care system in the world, as long as you are healthy. It was that little ``as long as you are healthy'' piece that is the problem. If you are not healthy, you go down to America to get it taken care of. So we have seen it not work in Europe. I am a cancer survivor. I see what the cancer rate statistics are in England. I don't want to be a cancer guy in England. I wouldn't want to be a cancer guy here. So you see it hasn't worked in England, it hasn't worked in Canada, as well as our system currently works. Then, of course, we saw Massachusetts and Tennessee take bold forays into this socialized medicine field, and they got hammered by it.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the failures of socialized medicine in Europe and Canada.

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