Senate Proceeding on Oct 13th, 2009 :: 0:51:30 to 0:52:45
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Lisa Murkowski: prevented from occurring, a separate $180 billion in savings from lower reimbursements for hospitals and other providers are similarly suspect. together, these items provide about half the baucus plan's finance -- if half a trillion is waiting to be squeezed painlessly out of

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Speech By: Lisa Murkowski

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Lisa Murkowski: medicare, why wait for healt care reform. if, as obama repeatedly insists, medicare overspending is breaking the budget, why hasn't he gotten started on the painless billions in waste an -- and fraud that was in "the washington post", as i just today on the front page of

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Lisa Murkowski: the "post," it was reported that the s.g.r. house bill h.r. 3200, was stripped out of reform bill that passed in three house committees of jurisdiction. leaders in the house are citing -- citing of s.g.r. fix as the main reason for removing this provisi

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Lisa Murkowski: i b shortsighted in not addressing a major concern in the medicare program. a concern that not only would address reimbursement decreases that doctors have f year since 2002, but also the concerns to access to doctors that is worrying more and more of our medicare patients every

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Lisa Murkowski: day. by stripping this important provision out of the house bill, medicare patients are left crossing their fingers in the