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Paul Ryan: So just to expand on this point a little bit further, we have here a situation where 89 percent of the children in these…

On the recordJuly 23, 2007
So just to expand on this point a little bit further, we have here a situation where 89 percent of the children in these families are already covered by private health insurance that their parents had purchased, that their parents and employers probably had provided them. So what we are proposing here in this bill is that we raise taxes on the American taxpayers, and that we pay for government-controlled health care to replace that health insurance that they already have.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Discussing the implications of a health care bill affecting children's insurance coverage.

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