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Jim Inhofe: “Increases in health care spending will largely come at the expense of readiness spending.”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
Increases in health care spending will largely come at the expense of readiness spending.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe discusses the negative effects of rising health care costs on military readiness.

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