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Charles Boustany: “I warned our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the Democratic side of the aisle, that what they were proposing…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2015
I warned our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the Democratic side of the aisle, that what they were proposing was going to run up costs, restrict options within the insurance arena by forcing consolidation, and it was going to wreak havoc on the provider side, and we're seeing a lot of that now.
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Charles Boustany
Republican · Louisiana

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Boustany reflects on past warnings about the negative impacts of health care reforms.

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