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Jack Reed: “I think an essential element would be to try to reform health care in a way that controls costs going out.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
I think an essential element would be to try to reform health care in a way that controls costs going out.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed emphasizes the need for health care reform to control costs.

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