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Kent Conrad: You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other…

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
You are exploding the size of health care spending on top of health care spending which already exceeds any other industrialized country in the world by about 5 percent of GDP.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Kent Conrad highlights the unsustainable growth of health care spending in the U.S.

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