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Peter Roskam: “My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what is broken and build on what works.”

On the recordMay 31, 2009
My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: Fix what is broken and build on what works.
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Peter Roskam
Republican · Illinois

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Roskam summarizes Obama's guiding principle for health care reform.

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