Tom Harkin actually said...

But I think--I end up spending a ton of money on programmers programming to get the data that he needs--even if I automated the darn thing, I would still be spending buckets of money on programmers to get the data out he needs to report, which he believes does not really need to be reported anyway in the current day and time.

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Senator Harkin comments on the costs of data reporting in healthcare.

06/11/2003

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