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Congress is hard at work on a bill to get Medicare to provide prescription-drug coverage.(The Week)(Brief Article)
* Congress is hard at work on a bill to get Medicare to provide prescription-drug coverage. There are many thorny issues to be worked out. How fast should the country be bankrupted? How much heavier a tax burden should young people face to pay for entitlements for the elderly? There is, however, a silver lining to the bill. To win conservative support for it, Congress may lift restrictions on medical savings accounts. These accounts would remedy the tax code's bias toward expensive health-insurance policies by making out-of-pocket health expenses ...
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