07/19/2011
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"The Republicans promised to increase the number of insured Americans and to lower health care premiums."
"This particular requirement on diabetic testing supplies has been guaranteed by 47 states, and that would be eliminated by the Blackburn bill in those states."
"That is a far cry from the Republican claims that this bill will cover millions of the uninsured."
"I find this bill like a bad penny--it keeps on coming back. And it doesn't make sense now, particularly since we have the Affordable Care Act."