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On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
You have said before, Dr. Elmendorf, that health care is a very big part of our debt and deficit problem going out. Is that still true?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse questions the impact of healthcare on future debt and deficit.

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