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Michael Burgess: “Just late last week there was a news story that healthcare.gov was still not finished. The back-end portion, the part…”

On the recordApril 28, 2014
Just late last week there was a news story that healthcare.gov was still not finished. The back-end portion, the part that deals with payments to doctors and hospitals, still has not been constructed. Now, that was odd because just the week before the President held a big press conference down at the White House and said, Mission accomplished; everything we wanted to do has been done. Well, how do you reconcile these discrepancies? What, in fact, is the timeline for this to be accomplished? Mission accomplished: the patients, the doctors, and the hospitals who are going to end up the ones on the hook for these payments that are not going to be received, I wonder if they feel the same way. ____________________
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas
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govinfo.gov
Apr 28, 2014

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