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Steve Cohen: “The gentleman started with some story about Greece. I thought about it and I thought about the Trojan horse and this…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2007
The gentleman started with some story about Greece. I thought about it and I thought about the Trojan horse and this health care plan. The State of the Union address mentioned health care, but when you get into it, it is really a tax increase, as Representative Altmire mentioned. And it is going to affect charity hospitals, and that is the bottom line, the safety net, and it is probably going to destroy those hospitals. Is this plan not a Trojan horse?
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Discussing concerns about a health care plan during a floor speech.

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