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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:50 PM

Published 11/06/2009 by Houston Chronicle


AMA supports House health care bill despite dissent

The nation's largest doctors group came out Thursday in support of health care reform legislation scheduled for a House vote Saturday, when scores of member physicians will gather in Houston for a policymaking meeting and debate that contentious issue.

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