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On the recordMarch 6, 2012
Would you agree that Medicare and Medicaid have grown in unsustainable ways, and without serious reform, those two programs alone are going to bankrupt the country?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham highlights the financial unsustainability of Medicare and Medicaid.

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