Sponsor of Texas health laws brings expertise to Congress.
An opponent of government regulation of hospital costs, Rep. Bob Gammage of Texas thinks that Congress should have the right to veto the triggering of mandatory cost controls. It makes no sense, he says, to single out a particular industry for what, in effect, would be wage and price controls, especially because hospitals don't control what they buy, in terms of goods and services.
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