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Alfonse D'Amato: “If we multiplied 2.7 million times $3,000 per recipient--and that is a modest figure, because as they are more elderly…”

On the recordJuly 18, 1996
If we multiplied 2.7 million times $3,000 per recipient--and that is a modest figure, because as they are more elderly the cost even goes up higher--we would find that is a shocking figure. It seems to me that approaches over $6 billion a year--$6 billion a year. That is a round number.
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Alfonse D'Amato

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Discussing the financial implications of elderly care costs.

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