Confusion still reigns about Medicare outcome. (Medicare Overhaul).
Publication: Medicine & Health
Publication Date: 09-JUN-03
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It appears that the White House will see only minor pieces of its Medicare plan included in bills produced by Congress this summer.
Bills may include a PPO option with slightly enhanced benefits such as more catastrophic or preventive-care coverage. But with Grassley and Baucus already producing a draft bill that contains both of the White House's big drug no-nos--private plans offering drug-only coverage and an equal prescription-drug benefit for all beneficiaries (see story, p. 2)--it looks as if...
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