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Michael Burgess: “This thing was not about healthcare, never was. It is a tax bill, but bottom line, it is about control.”

On the recordJuly 12, 2011
This thing was not about healthcare, never was. It is a tax bill, but bottom line, it is about control.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess argues that the healthcare reform is fundamentally about government control, not healthcare.

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