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On the recordJuly 26, 2017
In other words, this bill is not saying to doctors: What will this mean to your patients? What happens if 32 million people are thrown off of medication? How many of them will get sick? How many of them will die? No testimony. How about hospitals? What kind of testimony have we heard from hospital administrators, those in rural America, about the impact of this legislation on rural hospitals in Vermont and rural hospitals in Oregon?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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Jul 26, 2017

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