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Jay Inslee: “If you could make an investment of $1 that could result in 26,000 deaths--premature deaths in the United States, and…”

On the recordApril 14, 2011
If you could make an investment of $1 that could result in 26,000 deaths--premature deaths in the United States, and would return economic benefits of a minimum of $5 to the Nation, let us just start with that presumption.
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Inslee emphasizes the economic benefits of investing to prevent premature deaths.

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