03/21/2016
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"Now, the Democrats this week are going to pass one of the missing links to allow Medicare to negotiate prices and drive down drug costs and then carry that over to private insurance, so that is going ..."
"I just can't help but say, 'Thank God for Medicare and Medicaid.' Where would people in this country be without that coverage?"
"This is not something where you can say we are going to get something that looks like something elsewhere in the world."
"To give you a flavor for what that means as a matter of public finances, if you were to finance that in the traditional fashion of Medicare with a payroll tax, you would need to have a 21-percentage p..."