the Affordable Healthcare Act is going to help that because we have been spending this money on sending these people, up until now, to the emergency room;
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “the Affordable Healthcare Act is going to help that because we have been spending this money on sending these people, up…”
On the recordDecember 3, 2013
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Norton argues that the Affordable Care Act will reduce emergency care spending.
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