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Roger Wicker: “Let us talk about raising the retirement age because that is one thing that we now have the ability to do in Medicare…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
Let us talk about raising the retirement age because that is one thing that we now have the ability to do in Medicare that would save money in ways that created better incentives.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker suggests raising the retirement age in Medicare to save money.

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