Now we only have 11 percent of seniors who chose that. I ask the Senator from Michigan, does it somehow appear that since voluntarily the Republicans could not get seniors into HMOs and private health care plans, there now seems to be an approach that we are going to force them into HMOs by doing away with the Medicare system and restructuring it into a private HMO type system that would force the elderly to do what the elderly do not want to do? Does that seem to be the kind of thing we see laid out in front of us?
Tom Harkin: “Now we only have 11 percent of seniors who chose that. I ask the Senator from Michigan, does it somehow appear that…”
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Questioning the restructuring of Medicare and its impact on seniors during a Senate debate.
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