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Tom Harkin: Now more than ever, we have the opportunity for comprehensive, meaningful health reform, and we must take bold steps…

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
Now more than ever, we have the opportunity for comprehensive, meaningful health reform, and we must take bold steps where we have been timid in our policies to protect and preserve health, to rebuild what we have let crumble in public health, to help our people stay healthy and our businesses stay competitive.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin emphasizes the need for bold health reform to improve public health.

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