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Tom Carper: “Health care costs were killing us. Unless we figured out how to get our arms around those, for the government and the…”

On the recordMarch 11, 2014
Health care costs were killing us. Unless we figured out how to get our arms around those, for the government and the private sector as well, it is going to do us in.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the critical issue of rising health care costs.

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