Recently a senior medic - a man in whose hands I'd put my life with no hesitation - drew me a chilling picture of the future of the NHS. It wasn't a picture whose colours were political, not party political anyway.

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"I'm not a medic so I don't know how it is passed on, but you can spit, cough, sneeze - anything that comes out of your body is how it is passed on I suppose, " he said.

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We enacted several new initiatives to help our returning veterans find new jobs and get trained for those jobs. (Applause.) The kind of outstanding young men and women that Chris was talking about, who come home -- I was up in Minnesota, met a young man who had been an emergency medic Iraq, saving lives under the most severe circumstances.

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