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John Shimkus: “Medicare, by the actuary, says it is going to go broke 2024.”

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
Medicare, by the actuary, says it is going to go broke 2024.
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John Shimkus
Republican · Illinois

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Shimkus discusses the impending insolvency of Medicare.

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