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Medicare Drug Plan To Cost $1.2 Trillion

HeadlineFeb 09, 2005

The Washington Post is reporting the White House is now admitting the cost of its Medicaid prescription drug plan will cost $1.2 trillion over the next decade. The sum is more than three times what Congress was told in 2003 when the program was narrowly approved.

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