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On the recordMarch 16, 2021
Listen, to have us continually come and beg you for money to be treated equitably is absolutely unfair.
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands

Editor's note · Context

Plaskett emphasizes the unfairness of funding disparities for U.S. territories' healthcare.

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