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John Cornyn: “My second amendment will be to strike the unelected…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Sen. Cornyn on Texans' Medicare Cuts in Reid HC Bill - Floor Speech

Published | Video Starts at 19:26

… pay for a as yet another unsustainable entitlement program, the Medicare program should be able to meet the same solvency and risk based capitalization requirements that private insurance plans meet. My second amendment will be to strike the unelected, unaccountable board of bureaucrats known as the Medicare Advisory Board. Now we've heard this Medicare Advisory Board extol But this is the same kind of unelected, unaccountable board that we saw a few weeks saw just a couple of weeks … (19:26–19:38)

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Proposes an amendment to eliminate the Medicare Advisory Board.

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