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Jeff Flake: “The assumption that we are going to get $2,500 in savings, net savings, not shift to the taxpayer when these exchanges…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2012
The assumption that we are going to get $2,500 in savings, net savings, not shift to the taxpayer when these exchanges start, is fanciful at best.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake criticizes the projected savings from health care exchanges as unrealistic.

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