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Bernie Sanders: “Medicare today is about cancer, it is about diabetes, it is about heart disease, it is about stroke.”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Medicare today is about cancer, it is about diabetes, it is about heart disease, it is about stroke.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Senator Sanders highlights the shift in Medicare's focus to chronic diseases.

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