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2006
WashPost: Closed Door Deal on Medicare Makes $22 Billion Difference for HMOs (1/24/06) NYTimes: States Intervene After Drug Plan Hits Snags (1/8/06) Star Tribune: Medicare Flaw Denies Drugs for Some Poor (1/6/06)
2005
NYTimes: Start of Medicare Drug Plan Sees Successes and Struggles (12/3/05) WashPost: New Problems In Medicare Drug Benefit (12/14/05) HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) USA Today: Medicare Drug Benefit Will Harm Seniors (11/21/05) WashPost: Congressional Report Finds Medicare Not Receiving Best Price for Prescription Drugs (11/23/05) Boston Globe Ed: A Flawed Drug Benefit (11/21/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) NYTimes: Another Choice for the Elderly: Charity or Medicare? (11/7/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Senate Budget Committee Approves Nearly $40 Billion in Cuts to Entitlement Program (10/28/05) HNR: Congress Enacts Legislation to Extend Medicare Premium Subsidies and Transitional Medicaid; Also Shores Up Shrinking Unemployment Funds for Gulf States (10/28/05) NY Times: States Protest Contribution to Medicare Drug Plan (10/18/05) NY Times: Benefit Rising By 4 Percent, But Medicare Takes A Share (10/15/05) HNR: House and Senate Fail to Extend Help to Low-Income Medicaid and Medicare Recipients (10/14/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) NYTimes: Lower Costs Seen for Premium in Medicare Drug Plan (8/10/05) NYTimes: Officials' Pitch for Drug Plan Meets Skeptics (7/17/05) NYTimes: Medicare Will Revise Guide to New Benefits in 2006 (5/22/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) NY Times: Under New Medicare Drug Plan, Food Stamps May Be Reduced (5/8/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) NYTimes: Medicare Applications Sent to Low Income Americans (3/29/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) NYT: Applying Brakes to Benefits Gets Wide G.O.P. Backing (1/9/05)
2004
WP Editorial: The Bigger Problem (12/26/04) WP: Social Security Payments to Rise 2.7 Percent - But Higher Medicare Premiums... (10/20/04) NYT: Medicare Overseers Expect Costs to Soar in Coming Decades (3/24/04)
2003
HNR: Medicare Conferees Continue to Crawl Towards Agreement (10/24/03) HNR: Medicare Overhaul Continues In Congress (6/23/03) HNR: Senate Unveils Medicare Drug Plan (6/6/03)
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