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Al Franken: “It drives me crazy to hear all this talk about, 'We can't pay for healthcare reform.' We can pay for healthcare reform…”

On the recordJuly 28, 2009
It drives me crazy to hear all this talk about, 'We can't pay for healthcare reform.' We can pay for healthcare reform, but we've got to get on top of the overuse of expensive therapies in place of therapies that actually may work better and cost a whole lot less.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken argues that healthcare reform is possible by addressing expensive therapies.

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