>Bill, maybe you can assist me: here's the problematic quotation:
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>“If you have a law that makes explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it wouldn’t have passed,” he said in one video. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really critical to getting the thing to pass.”
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>Healthy people pay in and sick people get money... isn't that just a description of the way insurance works?

Actually, wrong on both accounts. Everybody pays, and the money goes to those who bill their services for the ill - be they doctors, transportation, pharma or insurance itself.