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"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace."
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"We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act."

"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."

"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace."
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