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On the recordApril 14, 2021
It is outrageous, I say to our nominees and colleagues, that in affluent white suburbs there are all kinds of health-care services of the most sophisticated nature, and in so many communities of color, it is like a health-care desert, and this committee is determined to change that.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights health care disparities faced by communities of color.

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