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Paul Ryan: “The only point I was making was I was not saying the current Medicare program is privatized. Under my colleague's logic…”

On the recordSeptember 10, 2003
The only point I was making was I was not saying the current Medicare program is privatized. Under my colleague's logic, under my colleague's definition of privatization, Medicare is certainly privatized, which is not the case. That is why we are not privatizing Medicare.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Discussing the status of the Medicare program during a debate.

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