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A flawed drug benefit

November 21, 2005

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ELDERLY PEOPLE puzzling over the Medicare drug benefit as enrollment opened last week should know there's a reason it is so complicated: The Republican leaders of Congress who crafted the plan are unsympathetic to social programs, and they loaded it up with special exceptions and limitations to further the goals in their political agenda. (Full article: 442 words)

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