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Mark Pocan: “Over half the people right now in the country are on…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan town hall in Green Bay

Published | Video Starts at 1:10:37

You can't be the United States Postal Service and pizza delivery, right? No one else can use the government name. But those lobbyists were very smart, and Over half the people right now in the country are on Medicare Advantage plans. So there's a whole lot of other things around that. But what this says is that you will have to go on those plans and that they're basically trying to get rid of Medicare as a government service. (1:10:37–1:10:42)

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Asserts that over half of Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans.

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