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Ron Wyden: “I think there ought to be a role for the private sector, but I think the idea of just handing somebody a voucher and…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
I think there ought to be a role for the private sector, but I think the idea of just handing somebody a voucher and saying health care is like an apple, that is not what our bipartisan group is all about.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden critiques the comparison of health care to commodities like apples.

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