This is rationing in action. This is one of our government-run health care plans, and when you don't fully fund it, as we do not within IHS, we see what happens.
Lisa Murkowski: “This is rationing in action. This is one of our government-run health care plans, and when you don't fully fund it, as…”
On the recordDecember 2, 2009
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Murkowski discusses the consequences of underfunding the Indian Health Service.
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