09/09/2014
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"This year's June MedPAC, Director Miller, reaffirmed--in my mind, anyway--that we don't have to scrap the current system in order to save Medicare."
"if it doesn't provide adequate financial assistance for lower income beneficiaries, benefit redesign puts these beneficiaries in a very, very vulnerable financial situation"
"the life of Medicare has been extended about eight years because of the ACA"
"Now here is the real headache. Let me tell you what the real headache is. You are sitting over there and talking about taxpayers and liability when you just voted on $600 billion, $600 billion in tax ..."