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Speaker 3: This also just goes back to consumer choice and freedom.

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Speaker 3: The President believes that you, as an American deserve to

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Speaker 3: Doctor Mark Siegel on Fox News Channel talking about exactly this,

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Speaker 4: But I can't get you treatments.

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Speaker 5: What about this idea that the President has floated about

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Speaker 3: Do you so? At the end of the day, there

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