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On the recordNovember 5, 2013
Is it true that, after all this sound and fury and all this bureaucracy and 19 new taxes and over $1 trillion of new spending and so on, that still 30 million Americans 10 years from now, after full implementation of this, will not have health care insurance?
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman questions the effectiveness of health care legislation in covering the uninsured.

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