“I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.”

Meaning

This reads as a promise about preserving public healthcare rather than shifting risk onto older people. It points to dignity in retirement, and to the idea that medical care should not become a product people have to bargain for at the end of life. It lands in debates over benefits, when trust in protection matters as much as cost.

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Originally said in English.

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