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Glenn Thompson: “Absolutely. And what we are talking about today goes well beyond Medicare. I thought Medicare and Medicaid were complex.…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2010
Absolutely. And what we are talking about today goes well beyond Medicare. I thought Medicare and Medicaid were complex. This new proposal, this Senate bill that is being pushed at us, HIPAA, the impact of costs on health care just from HIPAA were significant. If you multiply that times a hundred new Federal mandates on health care, and you multiply that by 150 new bureaucracies within the health care system, the ultimate cost of what this will cost our country, our citizens, and our health is just devastating.
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Glenn Thompson
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Mar 10, 2010

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The speaker is discussing the implications of new healthcare legislation and its potential costs.

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