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Kevin Hern: “So have less doctors and just keep pushing down the requirements. So we would sort of devalue the expertise we have in…”

On the recordMay 21, 2019
So have less doctors and just keep pushing down the requirements. So we would sort of devalue the expertise we have in the medical field, people who have gone a long time to school to give us what some would argue the greatest health care in the world.
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Kevin Hern
Republican · Oklahoma

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Hern criticizes reducing doctor requirements, arguing it undermines medical expertise.

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