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On the recordJune 11, 2013
If you break it down, that is $14,678 per family in this country, and most of it is well intended, but a lot of it has a ton of unintended consequences.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn highlights the financial burden of regulation on families and its unintended effects.

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