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They're revising the estimates of how much the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit will cost--revising them, amazingly enough, downward. Last year, program administrators estimated that the drug benefit would cost the federal government $38 billion in 2006. Now they think it will cost $31 billion. The cost estimate for 2006 through 2015 has also dropped, from $926 billion to $797 billion. State governments are saving money, too. The administration says that the lower cost estimates are ...