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The cost of providing health care coverage to those who don't have it would be about $719 million a year, he said.

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“We initially worked on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to help them to respond to their communities [and] to help them take care of their countries,” Gen. Hokanson said recently at a session hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.

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