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Dick Durbin: “We decided we were going to invent something new.”

On the recordApril 8, 2004
We decided we were going to invent something new.
Said by
Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
Source
congress.gov
Apr 8, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Senator Durbin discusses the decision to create a new system instead of using Medicare.

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