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Joe Pitts: “It is estimated it is costing our government, the federal government, between $300 million and $1.1 billion due to…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2012
It is estimated it is costing our government, the federal government, between $300 million and $1.1 billion due to asthmatics' increased hospitalizations.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts discusses the financial burden on the government due to the removal of Primatene Mist.

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