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Joe Pitts: “The program faces costs not covered by the Medicare tax of more than $30 trillion over the next 75 years.”

On the recordJuly 12, 2011
The program faces costs not covered by the Medicare tax of more than $30 trillion over the next 75 years.
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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Pitts warns about the unsustainable financial burden on Medicare.

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