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On the recordSeptember 18, 2012
I think if most Americans realized that we had agencies of government that continued year after year after year to deal with people that had an 80 percent error rate, and we had in their contract solely that they were supposed to help us figure out ways of mitigating that, of lowering that, and that still hadn't happened, and then we were putting in a prior authorization program now that's a pilot using those same contractors and that we didn't have yet a standard by which we felt like they should live to or not be a part of the program, I think people would be just incredibly astonished.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker expresses disbelief over contractors with high error rates continuing to operate.

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