Bush's Budget Proposal Would Cut Medicare Funding
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MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's new budget proposal would cut $196 billion over five years from both Medicare and Medicaid -- programs that provide health care to millions of poor and elderly, federal officials announced Monday.
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The Bush administration issued proposed rules Friday to trim Medicaid payments to schools.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years
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President Bush said on Wednesday  that his fiscal 2006 budget would slash or eliminate more than  150 government programs, and hold spending growth for many  other programs at below the rate of inflation.
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President Bushâs $3.1 trillion budget would increase military spending and curb the growth of Medicare and Medicaid but raise the federal deficit by nearly $250 billion.
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President Bush's new budget highlights his promise of deficit reduction, but the fine print indicates the goal may be elusive.
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President Bushâs budget plan would provide a big boost to defense and protect his signature tax cuts.
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President George W. Bush on Monday proposed more than $700 billion in new spending for the U.S. military -- much of it for the Iraq war -- in a budget that would curb domestic programs from health to education.
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Fresh from re-election, President Bush is dusting off an ambitious proposal to overhaul Social Security, a controversial idea that had been shelved because of politics and the administration's focus on tax cuts and terrorism.
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President Bush asked Congress on Monday to slash taxes by $1.9 trillion over the next decade, cementing his first-term tax cuts while changing the way health insurance is taxed.
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MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- President Bush's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget, unveiled Monday, calls for health care spending cuts, including a major five-year reduction in Medicare expenditures to slow the program's annual growth rate from 6.5 percent to 5.6 percent.
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Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan submitted to Congress on Monday.
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Cuts to Medicare will hurt the elderly and community cancer centers in the United States, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
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Bush is expected to announce trims in healthcare spending, placing the burden back on fiscally strapped states.
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President Bush said on Saturday that his upcoming budget proposal would emphasize restraint on domestic spending while putting defense and war costs for Iraq and Afghanistan as the top priority.
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Social Security and tax code changes could strain the federal budget. The president could use a rising GDP.
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Doctors who treat the elderly and disabled will face a 10 percent cut in their reimbursement rates from Medicare next year under a federal rule issued Thursday.