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On the recordFebruary 3, 2010
And so we tried this kind of government control of health care in Massachusetts and Tennessee, and here we turned around, and it didn't work worth a hoot for them, and we're trying to do this at the Federal level. And you're saying that in the case of Michigan you have a governor that seemed to have majored in some bad ideas, and you're saying, why in the world are you going to perpetrate ideas that don't work?
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker critiques government-controlled healthcare based on past state experiences.

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