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Bob Corker: “If you look at where we are today, where in today's dollars the average American family making average wages puts about…”

On the recordApril 17, 2012
If you look at where we are today, where in today's dollars the average American family making average wages puts about $119,000 into the Medicare program over their lifetime in today's dollars, and that same family takes out of Medicare over their lifetime in today's dollars $357,000, as we all know, you cannot make that up with volume.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker highlights the financial imbalance in Medicare contributions and withdrawals.

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