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Michelle Lujan Grisham: “What is really hard about these hearings is that both sides have a limited amount of time to shoot out their sound bite…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
What is really hard about these hearings is that both sides have a limited amount of time to shoot out their sound bite and these falsisms or truisms do not get us anywhere closer to dealing with real healthcare reform.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham
Democratic · New Mexico

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Lujan Grisham critiques the ineffective nature of political sound bites in healthcare discussions.

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