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February 09, 2006
N.Y. Senators, Hospitals, Protest Budget
"This budget reforms Medicare without reducing benefits to seniors or the disabled," a spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, Alex Conant, said. "The proposal focuses most of the anticipated savings from Medicare by making sure doctors and hospitals pass on to American taxpayers the savings they enjoy from greater productivity and efficiency."
Yet Mr. Bush's plan to limit growth in the program, which now accounts for more than 10% of the entire federal budget, was met with grim pronouncements by Senators Schumer and Clinton. Hours after Mr. Bush released the budget, Mr. Schumer issued an analysis that zeroed in on health care spending. Mr. Schumer said the Medicare proposal endangers access to health care by seniors.
Posted by Michelle at February 9, 2006 04:51 PM