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On the recordJanuary 16, 2014
Just to clarify, we hear the words ``sign up,'' ``signed up,'' ``equal to enrollment.'' We may know how many people have signed up. We do not know how many have actually enrolled and have paid their first month's premiums. Secondly, we are stewards of the taxpayers--we are not shareholders--and the lack of data is precisely what led the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to declare this law as a train wreck in that there are no metrics, no data, to determine whether this law is working and on track. With that, I reserve the balance of my time.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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this seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

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