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On the recordMarch 2, 1999
And while the study that we heard about today was a simulation using an economic model by a Republican economist, is there not some experience in some of the foreign countries that have moved to these private systems that they have actually experienced administrative costs of the level that you are referring to?
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Questioning the validity of a study on private systems during a debate.

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