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On the recordJanuary 18, 2011
Blood pressure, high blood pressure, the silent killer, people don't know that they have high blood pressure until they get the stroke. And then if they survive, they may very well be paralyzed or incapacitated the rest of their life and take an enormous expenditure every day, every month, every year caring for them in a nursing home or in an extended care situation. That is a very simple thing to understand. And this piece of legislation provides free preventive care for seniors. Is that what they really want to repeal, that free preventive care for seniors where most high blood pressure cases are found and where most strokes are found? It is a preventive cost.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Garamendi discusses the importance of preventive care for seniors in relation to high blood pressure and strokes.

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