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Tom Coburn: “Reclaiming my time on that statement to say that that area, that EMA gets twice as much money per person with that than…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2000
Reclaiming my time on that statement to say that that area, that EMA gets twice as much money per person with that than anybody else in the country. If the gentlewoman can stand and defend that while people in Oklahoma are waiting in line and not getting drugs, while people cannot get any of the care in rural areas in this country because more money is consumed in one EMA relative to all the rest, and we can stand by and watch people have to wait for somebody to die before they can get on a drug list, I will not recognize that. I will not accept that. I believe that it is an unfounded statement. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Addressing funding disparities in healthcare and drug access during a debate.

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