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Letter to Senator Durbin support for the Social Security Number Protection Act of 2008

September 16, 2008
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The bill makes it clear that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall remove social security numbers from new and existing Medicare cards within certain prescribed timeframes. The removal of SSNs from Medicare cards is long overdue.

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