One of the first slides I brought up was starting, when you want to talk about health insurance, one thing that you want is you want to have that doctor-patient relationship kept--I don't know if you would call it sacred, but you want that to be a primary kind of consideration. And if an insurance company parks itself between the patient and the doctor, we don't like that idea very well.
W. Todd Akin: “One of the first slides I brought up was starting, when you want to talk about health insurance, one thing that you want…”
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The speaker is discussing the importance of the doctor-patient relationship in health insurance.
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