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Lincoln Chafee: “there are some saying, ``Oh, you are giving them a Cadillac package.'' It is just not so. I ask unanimous consent to…”

On the recordJune 24, 1997
there are some saying, ``Oh, you are giving them a Cadillac package.'' It is just not so. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a comparison between what Medicaid provides, which some could say is a Cadillac package, and what we have in here, which we provide, which is just what the Blue Cross provides. You can see as you look down the list that Blue Cross does not cover shoes and corrective devices, transportation to medical services, family counseling, hearing care or vision care. So we go with the Blue Cross package with the exception of adding vision care and hearing assistance.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Discussing the comparison of benefits between Medicaid and Blue Cross health insurance.

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