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Al Franken: “I championed a program in the health care law called the National Diabetes Prevention Program, which is a targeted…”

On the recordJune 11, 2013
I championed a program in the health care law called the National Diabetes Prevention Program, which is a targeted intervention that's been proven to reduce the chances that a person with pre-diabetes will develop full diabetes by nearly 60 percent.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken highlights the effectiveness of a diabetes prevention program he supported.

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