Medicare right now is the equivalent of the only gas station stop on a very long and lonely stretch of interstate, and what is being proposed with this Republican plan is basically rather than that one gas station where, sure enough, you can count on getting gas but you may not get the lower price or best service, is having six or seven little gas stations so you begin to have competition, which begins the working of the marketplace which directly affects price.
Marshall Sanford: “Medicare right now is the equivalent of the only gas station stop on a very long and lonely stretch of interstate, and…”
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Discussing the implications of a Republican plan for Medicare.
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No. One, it's not believable given the degree to which the Trump administration last go round, over which I overlapped a couple of years, incessantly talked about the market and what it was doing next.
I guess my question to each one of you all would be, are we walking our way toward the most predictable financial crisis in the history of man, and are you abetting in that process?
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I, humbly, 100 percent totally disagree with you on that one. I mean, if you look at the baseline over the next ten years, we're talking about $86 trillion of spending, right?





