RX PLAN WILL BE HEFTY, BUT NOT TOO HEFTY, JOHNSON SAYS ...(Brief Article)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The House approved a budget blueprint March 28 that would hold funding for a Medicare prescription drag benefit to the $153 billion ten-year total proposed by President George W. Bush. However, the Republican Congress certainly will commit more than that amount, in accordance with new Congressional Budget Office estimates that greatly increase the price tag of even a modest benefit, House Ways...

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