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Deborah Koff Ross: “We have created this model, that we use the word ``insurance'' when, in fact, what we have created is a relief model”

On the recordJune 1, 2015
We have created this model, that we use the word ``insurance'' when, in fact, what we have created is a relief model
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Ross critiques the National Flood Insurance Program as a relief model rather than true insurance.

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