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Ron Wyden: “That is not Medicare today. Medicare today is cancer, diabetes, heart disease, strokes.”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
That is not Medicare today. Medicare today is cancer, diabetes, heart disease, strokes.
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden discusses the current focus of Medicare on chronic diseases.

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