There's something wrong when the richest nation on earth, with the best health-care system in the world, the lowest poverty, and the highest employment, has a constantly growing percentage of its population going without medical-expense protection.
Richard K. Armey: “There's something wrong when the richest nation on earth, with the best health-care system in the world, the lowest…”
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Critique of the growing number of uninsured Americans.
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