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It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

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Ron Wyden
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 3
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