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Cynthia Lummis: “Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid will eventually collapse under their own weight if they are left unchanged.”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid will eventually collapse under their own weight if they are left unchanged.
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis warns about the unsustainability of entitlement programs.

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