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On the recordMarch 24, 2010
I want to speak rather personally about health care reform, why I support the bill that has been signed by the President, why I support the reconciliation bill, and why I will oppose any amendment no matter how good that amendment may appear to be. I am a doctor's daughter, and I am a former doctor's wife. So I have lived most of my life in a medical family. I have had very good health care. My father, who was chief of surgery at the University of California Medical Center, never operated on anyone he did not make a house call on. He was well respected by his students and a great surgeon. My husband who died was a neurosurgeon, and his practice was spent in stereotactic surgery with respect to people who had abnormal movements and could not control their movements. So I came to believe that we had the best medical system in the United States of America. It was only in the last few years that I began to see how much medicine had changed in America.
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California
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Mar 24, 2010

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Feinstein discusses her personal connection to health care reform and her support for the legislation.

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