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On the recordJanuary 23, 2017
But the Affordable Care Act had many, many good features, and one of them was, it made clear all across this country we were not going to go back to the days when health care was for the healthy and wealthy.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden praises the Affordable Care Act for promoting equitable healthcare access.

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