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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : But because the government forces health-care providers to sell Medicaid and Medicare benefits to the government at much lower prices than what private purchasers pay, the cost of those benefits is significantly lower than what American families pay on average for private health insurance.
48% : Though it is certainly true that poor people cannot use their Medicaid benefits "to make ends meet," workers who have to pay for private health insurance can't use that money to "make ends meet," either.

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