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Pete Stark: If we had vouchers, or whatever you want to call premium support things, the Medicare would stop being a defined benefit…

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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Pete Stark
California

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Questioning the implications of changing Medicare to a defined contribution plan.

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