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On the recordMarch 5, 2012
We are paying twice what the French and the British and the Germans--everybody else is paying for health care, and our health statistics aren't better.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott criticizes U.S. healthcare spending compared to other countries.

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