On the recordApril 26, 2012
If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit plan and become a defined contribution plan, would it not?
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congress.govPete Stark: “If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit…”
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Questioning the implications of changing Medicare to a defined contribution plan.
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