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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
If you are going to cover everybody in this room, you have to have everybody in here paying into the program, on some level.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

McDermott emphasizes the necessity of an individual mandate for universal coverage.

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