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Nancy L. Johnson: “That is true, and one of the provisions in that legislation goes to the heart of what you were saying. It allowed…”

On the recordApril 30, 1997
That is true, and one of the provisions in that legislation goes to the heart of what you were saying. It allowed seniors to report things they had been charged for wrongly and share in the savings. Remember they would have gotten half the cost of that delivery that the gentleman was billed for in savings, and the government would have gotten the other half of the savings. So it would have created, in a sense, an enforcement police the size of the entire senior population in America, and frankly that would have been a great thing.
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Nancy L. Johnson
Connecticut
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Discussing legislation aimed at empowering seniors to report wrongful charges.

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