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Mike Cloud: “Bad ideas don't get better just because you make them bigger. They get worse.”

On the recordMarch 28, 2022
Bad ideas don't get better just because you make them bigger. They get worse.
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Mike Cloud
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Critique of government healthcare proposals, emphasizing that they worsen problems.

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