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Roger Wicker: “A program that grows at 3 times the rate of inflation just simply cannot be sustained”

On the recordJuly 25, 2012
A program that grows at 3 times the rate of inflation just simply cannot be sustained
Said by
Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker emphasizes the unsustainability of Medicare's growth rate.

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