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Judd Gregg: that we do now if you reduce the amount of money spent on medicare? mr. gregg: the senator from georgia asks a very appropriat question, because the practical effects of the reductions which are being proposed is that people who are on medicare advantage, which is a program that many people, seniors like, will be eliminated.

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Judd Gregg: they will no longer have the opportunity to use medicare advantage or it will be contracted so much that it will be a shell of its former self. this is being done not to make medicare solvent. it's being done in order to move that money over and start a new entitlement for a new group of

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Judd Gregg: program created by the federal government reduced in spending stphe. mr. gregg: you know, the senator asks another good question. no is the simple answer. i mean, we all know that oe you start a mandatory program, it always grows and grows significantly. and that, of course, is why we're in such trouble here as a