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Robert Smith: “I want to see us do it as quickly as we can for the simple reason that businesses need to make planning and expenditures…”

On the recordJune 29, 2001
I want to see us do it as quickly as we can for the simple reason that businesses need to make planning and expenditures that last an awful long time. This is not unrelated to medicine and patients' health. Part of the technological development we are hoping to continue to provide to our people is in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological areas which do have a direct bearing on patients' health. The best right a patient can have is good health. This will facilitate that a great deal, perhaps as much as anything else in the bill.
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Robert Smith
Oregon
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Discussing the importance of timely business planning and its impact on healthcare during a floor speech.

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