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Tom Carper: “If we do not rein in the growth of health care costs as we go through this process, we may extend coverage to people who…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2009
If we do not rein in the growth of health care costs as we go through this process, we may extend coverage to people who do not have it, but we will not be able to sustain that extension of coverage for very long.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the need to control health care costs for sustainable coverage.

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