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Tom Harkin: Was that not the history? And if one has these private plans, that they are going to pick and choose, and they are going…

On the recordJune 4, 2003
Was that not the history? And if one has these private plans, that they are going to pick and choose, and they are going to cherry pick, and they are going to have a segregation of elderly pushed off in some corner someplace, begging for some kind of health care if we do not have a universal Medicare system? Is that not what might happen?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the implications of private health care plans on elderly care.

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