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Tom Harkin: “It's sort of like the prevention fund and what we did in prevention is sort of an afterthought, maybe?”

On the recordApril 23, 2013
It's sort of like the prevention fund and what we did in prevention is sort of an afterthought, maybe?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin questions the administration's prioritization of prevention funding in healthcare.

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