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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Today is my lucky day. Because for ages we're consistently told that single-payer healthcare is too expensive.”

On the recordMay 14, 2019
Today is my lucky day. Because for ages we're consistently told that single-payer healthcare is too expensive.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez challenges the narrative about the cost of single-payer healthcare.

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