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Tom Carper: “If you do nothing else on health care reform, the one thing you need to do is to make sure that at some point in time…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
If you do nothing else on health care reform, the one thing you need to do is to make sure that at some point in time, when the cost of health care coverage for a person, for a policy, reached a high level, at some point in time it should not entirely be treated as a tax-free benefit--there has to be some consequence.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the need for consequences on high-cost health care coverage.

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