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Mark Pocan: “We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't have…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 41 Answering your Questions

Published | Video Starts at 09:40

And unfortunately that means we won't have the answers that we need for people who are going to be facing these huge spikes in the Affordable Care Act. Now, one of my hopes out of all this is maybe people realize that We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't have universal health care. And the only way we can really address that is to look at what other countries have and what we have in this country, which by the way, the two most popular programs I think the federal government does are Social Security and Medicare. (09:40–09:46)

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Asserts that the U.S. is the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare.

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