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Barack Obama: Medicare is not simply an entitlement program that starts at age 65—it is earned over a lifetime.

On the recordJuly 29, 2010
Medicare is not simply an entitlement program that starts at age 65—it is earned over a lifetime.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 8544—45th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid

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