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Michael Burgess: “I don't know how, with $22 trillion and all the things I just talked about, we can introduce another big-government…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
I don't know how, with $22 trillion and all the things I just talked about, we can introduce another big-government takeover, essentially, of the health care economy.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Critique of Medicare-for-All proposal's financial implications.

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