John Hoeven: “We are going to work on health care reform.”

“And the other thing. And so they joined with us to do what needed to be done for the good of the American public across the board. And the other thing is We are going to work on health care reform. But you can't work on health care reform when the government shut down. And there's a right way to do that that will help bring medical inflation down and that's what we need to do.” (03:21–03:25)

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