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Transcript: SECRETARY THOMPSON URGES SENATE TO APPROVE MEDICARE BILL
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- November 23, 2003
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Regulatory Intelligence Data
11-23-2003
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson on Sunday urged the United States
Senate to come together in a bipartisan manner to pass Medicare legislation
that will give America's seniors a prescription drug benefit, better benefits
and more choices in the kind of health care they receive.
"We are one step from the most significant improvement to the health
care of seniors in 40 years," Secretary Thompson said. "We can either take
that step forward and deliver for America's seniors. Or we can take that
step backward and once again deny seniors affordable access to the modern
medicine that the rest of America enjoys."
Secretary Thompson ...