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Earl Blumenauer: “I met with a wide variety of people from health care, who were talking about how we move forward in this partnership…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2010
I met with a wide variety of people from health care, who were talking about how we move forward in this partnership that has been focused and in terms of how we improve Medicare for our seniors. The notion that somehow this is a takeover is lost on the people who are actually in the health care arena, and the American public will find that out.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon
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Nov 18, 2010

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Blumenauer discusses health care reform and the misconceptions surrounding it.

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