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Michael Burgess: “We have come to an unfortunate place in our country where it is prohibited for a doctor to own a hospital but hospitals…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
We have come to an unfortunate place in our country where it is prohibited for a doctor to own a hospital but hospitals can own doctors.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess criticizes the regulations that allow hospitals to employ doctors but not vice versa.

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