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Neil Abercrombie: I think if people were not making the association between cuts and/or additions arguments that are made in Medicare and…

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
I think if people were not making the association between cuts and/or additions arguments that are made in Medicare and Medicaid, in the context of a tax cut, if we could remove that tax cut from the context, I think that this argument would reach a different level of not only civility but of understandability and perhaps even acceptability within the country.
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Discussing the relationship between tax cuts and public perception of Medicare and Medicaid.

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