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Dick Durbin: “I ask the Senator, if one believes in privatization and competition, why does the private sector need a $6 billion…”

On the recordJune 26, 2003
I ask the Senator, if one believes in privatization and competition, why does the private sector need a $6 billion subsidy to compete with Medicare? If they are good, if they are efficient, if they are customer friendly, why do they need this Federal subsidy of $6 billion to offer an attractive health care package to seniors?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the need for federal subsidies for private sector health care in comparison to Medicare.

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