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On the recordJanuary 21, 2014
As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare fee-for-service system to a much more collaborative and communicative thing with doctors and hospitals and health plans all working together to get health care costs down.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Emphasizing the need for collaboration in healthcare to reduce costs.

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