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On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Well, let me just say that there was nothing that would have prevented CMS from implementing those provisions prior to the passage of the ACA.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins asserts that CMS had the authority to implement provisions before the ACA.

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