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Sherrod Brown: “The medical savings accounts that the Speaker has extolled, the virtues, over and over and over again, as an idea of a…”

On the recordMay 9, 1996
The medical savings accounts that the Speaker has extolled, the virtues, over and over and over again, as an idea of a big insurance company, major contributors to the Speaker that salivate over the prospect of getting to write all this insurance for a Medicare program that is withering on the vine. It means major income to them, major costs to senior citizens to pay for a tax break for the wealthy.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing medical savings accounts during a debate on Medicare.

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