John Dingell actually said...

Yes, if they are exempted, it will be, as I said in my testimony, really a gift to the insurance industry because it will give them just one more way that they can meet regulations that they could already be meeting if they were to reduce benefits, reduce premiums, or if they reduced spending in many other areas of spending.

09/15/2011

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