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On the recordMarch 20, 2012
I thank Senator Portman. The Senator has made so many excellent points. I believe if we look at the people who have spoken about this legislation, before and after its passage, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone who speaks with greater authority than Dr. Tom Coburn, who is a Member of the Senate. I would ask Dr. Coburn to weigh in on this health care bill. He has talked through the years so often about what this health care bill is doing to medicine, the impact it is going to have on patients, the impact on the economy, the impact on jobs. I would like the Senator to talk to us today about what he is seeing as we are literally on the time of the second anniversary and tell us how this is panning out. It has been the law now for a couple of years. What is the reality of this legislation?
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Mike Johanns
Republican · Alaska

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