Tommy Thompson: “My father never had health insurance.”

“If you're really wealthy, you can get health care. If you're middle income, you can get health care. But the poor individual that works on the farm or in the grocery store, My father never had health insurance. And so the best way to do it, I thought, was, I'll help those people. And that was the genesis to help hardworking individuals that could not get, didn't ask the government for anything and could not afford it, but needed it badly.” (41:51–41:54)

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