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On the recordJanuary 30, 2007
You are right. Add the Medicare part D privatization, all of those moneys going to HMO profits and pharmaceutical companies' profits, to Social Security privatization attempted by the Bush administration, why are hospitals' charity care next? Why the foundation of the last resort for so many families? Why do they want to take away resources from the hardworking doctors and our charity hospitals?
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Kathy Castor
Democratic · Florida

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Addressing concerns about privatization of Medicare and its impact on charity care.

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