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On the recordJune 22, 2010
Let's say you change your job. Let's say you move from one employment situation to another. You may change your insurance. Most people do because most people get their insurance through their work. We will have a situation where over the next couple of years, a promise that the President made to the American people--another promise that the President made to the American people will be broken. We have not just seen it with regular insurance. My colleague from Arizona is in a State with many people who are seniors, a number of them on Medicare Advantage, a special program that speaks specifically to preventive care, coordinated care. People signed up for Medicare Advantage because there are advantages to being on Medicare Advantage. Yet this health care law that was crammed through this Senate is going to cut massively from Medicare Advantage. One out of four people on Medicare is on Medicare Advantage, and they know why they have signed up for it. It is because of the advantages to them.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Jun 22, 2010

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Senator Barrasso discusses the impact of health care law on Medicare Advantage and its beneficiaries.

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