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Brian Higgins: The United States is the richest country in the world. We pay more for health care than any other country, and we have…

On the recordJune 22, 2020
The United States is the richest country in the world. We pay more for health care than any other country, and we have no treatment and we have no vaccine.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins highlights the inadequacies of the U.S. healthcare system during the pandemic.

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