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On the recordOctober 4, 2000
No. 1, it is $25 a month or $300 a year. No. 2, it is a voluntary election, exactly the same way that you had a voluntary election for Part B for 35 years. No. 3, you understand that the plan of the Vice President is a universal plan like all the rest of Medicare; over 39 million Americans who are eligible for Medicare are eligible to make the voluntary election to participate in the prescription drug benefit?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Discussing the details of a proposed prescription drug benefit under Medicare.

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