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On the recordOctober 23, 2013
Because this amorphous CMS is--there are people there. And I am going to venture to guess that the regular bureaucrats did their job, the political appointees manipulated the system to hide data they didn't want the public to know.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus criticizes CMS for lack of transparency and accountability regarding health care data.

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