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Ezra Klein: “When Medicare passed, it took one year for the Medicare…”

Featuring: Ezra Klein, Liberal | New York Times Columnist and Podcast Host | National

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Published | Video Starts at 25:15

At the speed of elections. When Democrats get to the point where they are endlessly justifying why everything is so slow. My favorite example of this is that When Medicare passed, it took one year for the Medicare cards to go out. When Biden, in what was arguably the most popular single thing he passed during his presidency, certainly one of them passed negotiating down Medicare drug prices the way it was designed. (25:15–25:19)

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Asserts that Medicare cards were distributed within one year of the program's passage.

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