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Matt Cartwright: “On the one point about 99.9 percent of crashes settling within existing insurance minimums, there we have the opponents…”

On the recordJune 3, 2015
On the one point about 99.9 percent of crashes settling within existing insurance minimums, there we have the opponents of my amendment speaking really out of both sides of their mouth, because if they say it is so rare that a crash will cost more than the minimum insurance, then what that means is that the expense of insuring against that minimal risk has to be minimal itself, but these are the same people saying that it will be a crippling additional insurance premium. It doesn't make sense.
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Matt Cartwright
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Jun 3, 2015

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