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Ron Wyden: “If we do not open up the Medicare database right now, it is going to be hard to empower consumers.”

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
If we do not open up the Medicare database right now, it is going to be hard to empower consumers.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden warns that lack of Medicare data access hinders consumer empowerment in healthcare.

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