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Hillary Clinton: If you don't start out trying to get universal health care, we know and our members of Congress know, you'll never get…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2008
If you don't start out trying to get universal health care, we know and our members of Congress know, you'll never get there.
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

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Hillary Clinton argues for the necessity of aiming for universal health care from the beginning.

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