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Marilyn Strickland: “So if a senior is on a fixed income and the Social Security premium goes up less than 3 percent and yet the Medicare…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2004
So if a senior is on a fixed income and the Social Security premium goes up less than 3 percent and yet the Medicare premium goes up 17.4 percent, what is that senior on a fixed income to do when they are already living on the edge, they are already having a struggle to buy food and get their medicines, pay their bills, heat their homes? What are they to do? What does this President say to an 80-year-old man or woman who is living at the edge in terms of their income? What does this President say? What do the leaders in this House have to say to those folks?
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Marilyn Strickland
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the impact of rising Medicare premiums on seniors with fixed incomes.

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