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Darrell Issa: “What we are seeing, unfortunately, is that a plan that was supposedly designed to help those who need the most, we are…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
What we are seeing, unfortunately, is that a plan that was supposedly designed to help those who need the most, we are seeing in rural areas there are fewer and fewer doctors available, and we are seeing in inner cities the closure of clinics, the moving out of primary care doctors, the near complete absence of specialists in many cases.
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Darrell Issa
Republican · California

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Issa discusses the negative impact of a healthcare plan on rural and urban healthcare access.

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