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On the recordJune 1, 2004
I talk to people frequently in my district who suffer from various kinds of arthritis, osteoporosis and other kinds of chronic illnesses and diseases, and some of them are unemployed. We have lost a lot of jobs in Ohio, especially a lot of manufacturing jobs, jobs that at one time provided good health coverage for the worker and the worker's family. Many of those jobs are now gone. So these folks, who are maybe 45, 55, 60 years old, they do not even qualify for Medicare yet, and they are out of a job and have lost their health care and need these medicines. So I want to thank the gentleman for bringing that reality to this debate tonight, because there are people who are not seniors who are terribly, terribly in need of help with their medications.
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the impact of job loss on health care access for middle-aged constituents.

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