HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was the lone witness at the Senate Appropriations Health Subcommittee hearing today. Subcommittee chairman Tom Harkin was adamant that the health law would not lose funding while ranking Republican Sen. Richard Shelby called the law too expensive.
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