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Michael Burgess: “Quite simply, the success of the employer-sponsored insurance market is not worth wiping out with single-payer health…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2019
Quite simply, the success of the employer-sponsored insurance market is not worth wiping out with single-payer health care.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Argues against single-payer health care by highlighting employer-sponsored insurance success.

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