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Michael Burgess: “The promise was that we are going to use your Medicare dollars as a piggy bank to fund the Affordable Care Act.”

On the recordDecember 3, 2013
The promise was that we are going to use your Medicare dollars as a piggy bank to fund the Affordable Care Act.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Burgess highlights a broken promise regarding Medicare funding for the ACA.

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