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Bill Clinton: “We cannot afford not to do something about the fact that Medicare and Medicaid costs have risen at much more rapid rates…”

On the recordJune 10, 1995
We cannot afford not to do something about the fact that Medicare and Medicaid costs have risen at much more rapid rates than Government revenues are going up.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in a Town Meeting With Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich in Claremont

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