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On the recordOctober 17, 2023
Medicare today is overwhelmingly chronic care: cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases, strokes.
Said by
Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden highlights the shift in Medicare focus towards chronic care conditions.

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