02/04/2013
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"you have made it very clear in your work that you believe health care is best provided when doctors and patients--not Washington bureaucrats--are in charge of decisions."
"Higher health care costs put additional pressures on the employers' bottom line and increase the cost of hiring new workers."
"I would like to have that so the Committee would know through this error that was made how much the taxpayers were on the hook for, plus the risk that the patients had."
"you wouldn't, you would be spending that money on veterans, on their health care."