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Have To Go To ER With Citizens You Have — Not Citizens You Might Want

by David Kurtz
09.29.09 | 8:56 am

Sen. John Ensign (R-NV): The U.S. health care system would beat out European health care if it were treating Europeans rather than Americans, who get in car accidents and shoot each other and stuff like that.

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