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On the recordJune 16, 2010
I come to the floor today as someone who has practiced medicine in the State of Wyoming since 1983, taking care of families across the great State of Wyoming as an orthopedic surgeon and also as a medical director of the Wyoming Health Care, which is a program to offer low-cost medical screenings, health screenings to help people; early detection, because we know that is a way to keep down the cost of care--to help them find problems before they get too far progressed so we can get effective treatments. This is a very successful program. [...] Again this week one of those major promises, fundamental behind the health care law, has been broken.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Jun 16, 2010

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The speaker discusses the implications of the recently passed health care law and its broken promises.

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