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On the recordMarch 3, 2006
But things such as asbestos, you can't deny that there are patients with mesothelioma and clinical diseases today who are being hurt by the system and that that is not an important issue from a humanitarian standpoint, from a healing standpoint, for people who are suffering from disease right now, dying from lung cancer today who are not getting adequate compensation or appropriate compensation in a timely way. You don't mean to imply that we should not be addressing this asbestos crisis that is out there that also has a huge healing humanitarian component to it?
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William H. Frist
Tennessee
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