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On the recordJune 23, 2011
Just to get it up and going. And they continued to receive that additional 16 percent, additional profit, guaranteed profit. When we did the Affordable Health Care Act, we said, Wait a minute. They don't need that any longer. The program is up. It's going. The advertising and everything else is in place, the administrative system. So we want to take back that additional profit given to the insurance companies. That's where the $500 billion is over a 10-year period. That's money that was saved by creating an efficiency and, once again, ending an unnecessary supplement. It did not in any way, shape, or form change any of the benefits that seniors received in the Affordable Health Care Act. There was a sentence. It said, ``No benefit changes,'' period.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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