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On the recordDecember 17, 2013
if we do not do something, we are still going to pay for it, we are just going to pay for it in really terrible ways
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse agrees with Warren on the consequences of inaction regarding payment for care.

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