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Jim McDermott: If you are going to cover everybody in this room, you have to have everybody in here paying into the program, on some…

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

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

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