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On the recordNovember 17, 2011
I thank the gentleman from Georgia. I have spent most of my professional career in the health care industry. I have represented a hospital for a number of years, so I know up close and personal how these issues have affected and will affect our hospitals and our providers. And despite the best intentions of this health care law--whether we disagree with it or we agree with it--despite the best intentions of this health care law, what we are seeing are the unintended consequences. {time} 2040 The fact that our hospitals, our health care providers, will not be able to proceed, will not be able to perform the services that our communities need and expect and have come to expect. That certainly wasn't the intent of the health care law, but ladies and gentlemen and Mr. Speaker, that's exactly what is happening. I would like to yield and recognize the gentlewoman from North Carolina.
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Ann Marie Buerkle
New York

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