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Michael Burgess: “Count me as skeptical that a new one-size-fits-all system will achieve the objectives that its advocates have laid out…”

On the recordApril 29, 2019
Count me as skeptical that a new one-size-fits-all system will achieve the objectives that its advocates have laid out with such optimism and such hope.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess expresses doubt about the feasibility of a universal healthcare system.

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