Parties spar in US Congress on Medicare increase
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Senate Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday battled over blame for a record increase in Medicare health premiums, which Democratic presidential candidate John
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Democrat John Kerry criticized President Bush on Saturday for burying a record jump in Medicare premiums in a pre-holiday announcement that came during a rush of news at home and abroad.
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Members of the American Medical Association&#39;s House of Delegates during an annual meeting in Atlanta on Sunday debated whether to endorse the reimportation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and some other nations, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle
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Republican congressional leaders struggled Wednesday to sidetrack legislation allowing prescription drugs to be imported, a pre-election controversy threatening to delay billion of dollars for homeland security.
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Democrats are vowing to roll back premium increases, and the Bush campaign is seeking to blame lawmakers for the rise.
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Democrats are vowing to roll back a sharp increase in premiums announced this month, and the Bush campaign is seeking to blame lawmakers for the rise.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.
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House Republican leaders were forced yesterday to summon lawmakers back into session next month to quell an uproar over a belatedly discovered provision in a huge spending bill that would have
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A lawmaker's inquiry could slightly increase the cost of the Medicare drug benefit if its results are publicized, congressional auditors said Tuesday.
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Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they were willing to tweak, but not overhaul, a bill that would renew and expand the State Childrenâs Health Insurance Program.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson used a government event Wednesday to criticize Sen. John Kerry for his recent attacks on the Bush administration&#39;s management of Medicare.
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Democrats are vowing to roll back a sharp increase in premiums announced this month and the Bush campaign is seeking to blame lawmakers for the rise.
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Hit with a record-high increase in Medicare premiums, seniors also are being bombarded with competing claims by the presidential candidates over who to blame.
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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A House committee tried to forge a compromise between the parties for and against a planned royalty rate increase set by the Copyright Royalty Rate Board.
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he Medicare premium increase announced last week - the largest in the program&#39;s history - has ratcheted up campaign accusations on both sides.
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The Bush administration came out today in opposition to Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year, saying that