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John Garamendi: Unless you happen to live until you are 65. When you are 65, you will automatically be eligible for a single-payer…

On the recordMarch 12, 2010
Unless you happen to live until you are 65. When you are 65, you will automatically be eligible for a single-payer universal health care program called Medicare. People want to live long enough to get into that system. And at that White House meeting most of the graybeards there were 65, and they belonged to that system.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Mar 12, 2010

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Garamendi discusses the importance of reaching age 65 to access Medicare.

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