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Johnny Isakson: “It was not an increase in the cost of the benefits.”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
It was not an increase in the cost of the benefits.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Isakson clarifies that increased costs were due to better service access, not higher benefit costs.

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