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On the recordSeptember 23, 2009
Just coming out of our markup over in the Finance Committee on health care reform, there was a lot of discussion about defensive medicine.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the need to address defensive medicine in health care reform.

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