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Lamar Alexander: “So what I would like, respectfully, to see from the President is a plan to do what his own debt commission said we…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
So what I would like, respectfully, to see from the President is a plan to do what his own debt commission said we needed to do, which is to restructure Medicare and Medicaid in a way that saves them so people can count on them.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Calls for a presidential plan to restructure Medicare and Medicaid.

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