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Jim Risch: “One of the difficulties I have is that we keep getting reports that the cost of health care keeps going up…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2013
One of the difficulties I have is that we keep getting reports that the cost of health care keeps going up, notwithstanding the fact that everybody was promised it would go down.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Senator Risch expresses concern over rising healthcare costs despite promises of reductions.

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