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Claire McCaskill: Forty percent of all the costs of Medicare come in the last six months of someone's life.

On the recordJuly 30, 2015
Forty percent of all the costs of Medicare come in the last six months of someone's life.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill highlights the high Medicare costs incurred at the end of life.

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