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On the recordApril 26, 2011
The attack on Medicare also overlooks the most basic fact of healthcare, which is that all healthcare costs are skyrocketing, irrespective of who the insurer is.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse argues that the real issue in healthcare is rising costs, not Medicare.

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