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On the recordJanuary 21, 2015
It seems to me that we're engaged in a discussion that is fundamentally meaningless because all we're doing is moving a significant margin point and its incentives up and down.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse criticizes the debate on health care margin points as ineffective.

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