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Tom Coburn: “What it is going to do is exacerbate the cost shifting going on with Medicare and Medicaid right now, which means…”

On the recordMarch 24, 2010
What it is going to do is exacerbate the cost shifting going on with Medicare and Medicaid right now, which means insurance rates for everybody else in the country are going to go up.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma
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Mar 24, 2010

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Speaker Coburn discusses the impact of healthcare legislation on insurance rates.

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