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June 26, 2017

Bishop: 'Fundamental defects' persist in Senate's version of health bill

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price conducts a health care listening session June 21 at the White House in Washington. "An acceptable health care system provides access to all, regardless of their means, and at all stages of life," Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla., said in a June 22 statement.

WASHINGTON – The Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act contains "many of the fundamental defects" that appeared in the House-passed American Health Care Act "and even further compounds them," said the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

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