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Janice Schakowsky: “I'm so happy to be here tonight, particularly after I have heard what my colleagues had to say. One of them said, Our…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2010
I'm so happy to be here tonight, particularly after I have heard what my colleagues had to say. One of them said, Our people need to hear the truth about the health care legislation. That's exactly what we're going to talk about tonight. Tonight we're going to talk about how this legislation helps our older Americans, our senior citizens. We're going to talk about how this bill protects Medicare for the next 10 years. It's solvent for an extra 10 years so we keep our promise for an aging population and take care of our citizens when they get older. We're going to talk about closing the doughnut hole, about protecting seniors from elder abuse, about making visits to the hospital safe.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 17, 2010

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The speaker addresses the benefits of health care legislation for senior citizens.

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