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additional tests and procedures doctors run to protect themselves if ever taken to court. Comprehensive reform could reduce the costs passed along to patients. We also need to look at increasing portability so that people can take their health insurance with them from one job to another,  as well as allowing businesses to pool together to increase their risk pool so they can offer more affordable coverage to their employees.
• I welcome feedback from South Dakotans on what they want to see, because I will not stop fighting until we repeal this law and replace it with common sense solutions. And when we replace it, we won't pass a 2,700-page bill just to "find out what is in it," as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously said. We will implement solutions in a transparent way that keeps an open dialogue with the American people.
• Rep. Kristi Noem is South Dakota's lone U.S. Representative, elected in November 2010.  She serves on the Agriculture, Education and Workforce and Natural Resources Committees.