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Austin Scott: “So why would we allow the health insurance industry, who controls, through their contracts, who our doctor is, who our…”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2017
So why would we allow the health insurance industry, who controls, through their contracts, who our doctor is, who our pharmacist is, which medicine we can get, and which hospital we can go through to being exempt from the antitrust laws of our country?
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Austin Scott
Republican · Georgia

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Scott questions the exemption of health insurance from antitrust laws.

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