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Sheldon Whitehouse: “We are on a very bad glide slope for health care in this country with a $30-plus trillion liability just for Federal…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
We are on a very bad glide slope for health care in this country with a $30-plus trillion liability just for Federal health care benefits that is totally unfunded.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the unsustainable financial burden of federal health care benefits.

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