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On the recordOctober 10, 1995
In other words, if they pick out the healthiest seniors and leave traditional Medicare with those that are the weakest and the sickest and lack good health, that need the most care, they cherry pick those, as the term is used in the industry, then the next step, just like probably the next step after wrecking Medicare is to wreck Social Security and slay that dragon, as Speaker Gingrich's Peace and Freedom Coalition called for in February this year, that the next step would be to go to Federal workers and to let same golden rule apply there.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Discussing the potential impacts of Medicare changes on seniors and Social Security.

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