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Michael Burgess: “The reason this is important is we had Secretary Sebelius and Mr. Cohen from Center for Communications Insurance…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
The reason this is important is we had Secretary Sebelius and Mr. Cohen from Center for Communications Insurance Oversight here at this committee at the very end of April.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess highlighted previous assurances about the employer mandate's timeline.

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