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John Sarbanes: “It is in strong contrast to some of the proposals that we have seen in recent years--for example, the proposal to turn…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
It is in strong contrast to some of the proposals that we have seen in recent years--for example, the proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher program, which completely upends the basic principles upon which the program is operated for all of these decades.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes criticizes proposals that threaten Medicare's foundational principles.

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